Eikon Basilike: with selections from Eikonoklastes

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Broadview Press, 8 nov. 2005 - 336 sidor

Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king’s motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King’s Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents.

This Broadview edition’s critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and its authorship, while the appendices provide a generous selection of contemporary responses to Eikon Basilike and accounts of the king’s trial and scaffold speech.

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Acknowledgements
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A Brief Historical Chronology
41
Upon His Majestys calling this last Parliament
51
Upon the Earl of Straffords death
53
Upon His Majestys going to the House of Commons
57
Upon the Insolency of the Tumults
60
And after settling this during the pleasure of the two Houses
65
Upon His Majestys retirement from Westminster
69
Of the differences between the King and the 2 Houses in point of Churchgovernment
135
Upon UxbridgeTreaty and other Offers made by the King
146
Upon the various events of the War Victories and Defeats
150
Upon the Reformations of the Times
155
Upon His Majestys Letters taken and divulged
159
Upon His Majestys leaving Oxford and going to the Scots
163
Upon the Scots delivering the King to the English and His Cap tivity at Holmeby
165
Upon their denying His Majesty the Attendance of His Chaplains
168

Upon the Queens departure and absence out of England
73
Upon His Majestys repulse at Hull and the fates of the Hothams
76
Upon the Listing and raising Armies against the King
80
Upon their seizing the Kings Magazines Forts Navy and Mili
88
wards
98
Upon the Rebellion and trouble in Ireland 13 Upon the Calling in of the Scots and their Coming
108
Upon the Covenant
114
Upon the many Jealousies raised and Scandals cast upon the King to stir up the People against
121
Upon the Ordinance against the CommonPrayerBook
130
Penitential Meditations and Vows in the KINGS solitude at Holmeby
176
Upon the Armys Surprisal of the KING at Holmeby and the ensuing distractions in the two Houses the Army and the City
179
To the Prince of Wales
183
Meditations upon Death after the Votes of NonAddresses and HIS MAJESTYS closer Imprisonment in CarisbrookeCastle
195
Other Contemporary Responses to Eikon Basilike
285
The Trial and Execution of King Charles I
303
Restoration Revelations and Restraints
325
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Jim Daems currently teaches in the English Department at the University College of the Fraser Valley. He is the author of Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture (Continuum, 2005).

Holly Faith Nelson Assistant Professor of English at Trinity Western University, has co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (2000) and Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton (University of Delaware Press, 2004).

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