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News, Memory and the Culture of the Stuart Intervention into the Thirty Years' War, 1624â1630
The Bellicose Days
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 139
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 139
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Just as Charles Iâs reign ended upon the scaffold at the close of the British Civil Wars, it began in a disastrous entry into the Thirty Years' War. By studying the movement of peopleâsoldiers, refugees, diplomats, exiles, merchants, and artistsâand news and ideas between the Stuart kingdoms and the war-torn Continent, this book argues that the Thirty Years' War was the defining issue of the beginning of the young kingâs reign. This interdisciplinary cultural history brings together the words and images of these violent beginnings: the bellicose days.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
â1âPrelude: the Beginning of the Halcyon Days
â2âThe Bellicose Days
â3âCultures of War and News in Motion
â4âLooking Outside the Crowded Corridors of Power: Early Caroline Historiography and the Thirty Years War
â5âLandscapes of Memories and Ideas
â6âNavigating the Bellicose Days
1 Memories of Machination and Massacre
â1âWars of Memory on the Eve of War
â2âThe Palatinate: the Politics of Contesting and Creating an Emerging Memory
â3âMemories of Massacres and Fears of Spanish Combustion
2 Constructing a Kairos: an Anti-Habsburg Discourse at the Onset of War
â1âDivisions and Diatribes: Assuaging the Cracks of the Kairos
â2âThe War against Universal Monarchy
â3âOne Funeral and a Kairostic Wedding
3 âThe Action on Which the Worldâs Eye Is Turnedâ: the Siege of Breda and Disaster in the North
â1ââLet Antwerpes Fall like Thunder in Thy Earesâ: Viewing Bredaâs Siege through the Lens of Spanish Fury
â2âMapping Mars
â3âThe Handmaiden of War: Assuaging Disaster
â4âPosterity, Power and Plague
â5âOur Deare Vnkleâs Disaster
4 The Cultural and Meteorological Shadows of Cádiz
â1â1596 and 1625: Elizabethan Memory and Foreign Policy
â2âThe Meteorological Shadow of Cádiz
â3âThe Shadow of Disgrace
5 La Rochelle: Graveyard of Huguenot Liberties and Stuart Foreign Policy
â1âAn âUnnatural Combatâ: Fissuring the French Match
â2âGalvanising Gallants: Justifying and Recruiting for a French War
â3âNews from the Ãle de Ré
â4âRepercussions from the Ré
Conclusion: a Farewell to Arms? The End of the Bellicose Days
Bibliography
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
â1âPrelude: the Beginning of the Halcyon Days
â2âThe Bellicose Days
â3âCultures of War and News in Motion
â4âLooking Outside the Crowded Corridors of Power: Early Caroline Historiography and the Thirty Years War
â5âLandscapes of Memories and Ideas
â6âNavigating the Bellicose Days
1 Memories of Machination and Massacre
â1âWars of Memory on the Eve of War
â2âThe Palatinate: the Politics of Contesting and Creating an Emerging Memory
â3âMemories of Massacres and Fears of Spanish Combustion
2 Constructing a Kairos: an Anti-Habsburg Discourse at the Onset of War
â1âDivisions and Diatribes: Assuaging the Cracks of the Kairos
â2âThe War against Universal Monarchy
â3âOne Funeral and a Kairostic Wedding
3 âThe Action on Which the Worldâs Eye Is Turnedâ: the Siege of Breda and Disaster in the North
â1ââLet Antwerpes Fall like Thunder in Thy Earesâ: Viewing Bredaâs Siege through the Lens of Spanish Fury
â2âMapping Mars
â3âThe Handmaiden of War: Assuaging Disaster
â4âPosterity, Power and Plague
â5âOur Deare Vnkleâs Disaster
4 The Cultural and Meteorological Shadows of Cádiz
â1â1596 and 1625: Elizabethan Memory and Foreign Policy
â2âThe Meteorological Shadow of Cádiz
â3âThe Shadow of Disgrace
5 La Rochelle: Graveyard of Huguenot Liberties and Stuart Foreign Policy
â1âAn âUnnatural Combatâ: Fissuring the French Match
â2âGalvanising Gallants: Justifying and Recruiting for a French War
â3âNews from the Ãle de Ré
â4âRepercussions from the Ré
Conclusion: a Farewell to Arms? The End of the Bellicose Days
Bibliography
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