Religion, Loyalty and Sedition

Elaine Chalus and Roberta Anderson, Gibson William

Description

The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which religious issues were at the forefront in people’s minds.

This collection of essays were among the papers delivered at conferences in 2014 to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, held at Oxford Brookes University and Bath Spa University. They reflect some of the major issues that were evident in the period before, during and after 1714. In particular, they deal with how disloyalty was managed by the government and by individuals. They also demonstrate how central religion was to the process of securing the Hanoverian Succession and to the identity of the new regime established by George I. Disloyalty – real or imagined – was apparent in legal suits, in sermons and preaching, and in the material culture of the period. And once the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 had been overcome, the need to secure the loyalty of the Church and clergy was a key objective of the government.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Religión
• Sedition
• Loyalty
• Hanoverian
• Great Britain
• Religion
• History
• Succession
• 1714
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786830555
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

Extrait

Religion, Loyalty and Sedition: The Hanoverian Succession of 1714

Special Issue of The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture 2016

Edited by WILLIAM GIBSON Oxford Brookes University with Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool Roberta Anderson, Bath Spa University

Volume 2 November 2016 Number 2 UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS

https://doi.org/10.16922/jrhlc.2.2

Editors Professor William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University Dr John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales: Trinity Saint David Assistant Editor Dr Thomas W. Smith, Trinity College, Dublin Reviews Editor Dr Nicky Tsougarakis, Edge Hill University Editorial Advisory Board Professor David Bebbington, Stirling University Professor Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh Dr James J. Caudle, Yale University Dr Robert G. Ingram, Ohio University, USA Professor Geraint Jenkins, Aberystwyth University Dr David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University Professor J. Gwynfor Jones, Cardiff University Dr Frances Knight, University of Nottingham Professor Kenneth E. Roxburgh, Samford University, USA Dr Robert Pope, University of Wales: Trinity Saint David Professor Huw Pryce, Bangor University Dr Eryn M. White, Aberystwyth University Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Lord Williams of Oystermouth, Magdalene College, Cambridge Professor Jonathan Wooding, University of Sydney, Australia Editorial Contacts [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] Publishers and book reviewers with enquiries regarding reviews should contact the journal’s reviews editor, Dr Nicky [e-mail]. Cover image: Edward Cooper, ‘To the most Pious, Potent, Prudent, Serene, August Monarch George the first’,c.1714–15, by permission of the Royal Collection Trust6Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.

Illustrations Contributors

Introduction: The Succession of 1714 in Context William Gibson

CONTENTS

ARTICLES Politics, Religion and Propaganda: The Prosecution of Seditious Libel in the Last Years of Anne Ruth Paley

Loyalty and Disloyalty: Sacheverell’s Seals William Gibson

The Origins of Political Broadcasting: The Sermon in the Hanoverian Revolution, 1714–1716 James J. Caudle

Hanoverian Successions, Whig Schism, and Clerical Patronage: Chaplains of George and Caroline, Prince and Princess of Wales, 1714–1727 J. C. Lees

‘King George’s Religion’: Lutheranism and the religious politics of the Hanoverian succession Ralph Stevens

Index

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Cover image: Edward Cooper, ‘To the most Pious, Potent, Prudent, Serene, August Monarch George the first’,c.1714–15, by permission of the Royal Collection Trust6Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.

Picture 1: The Disloyal Seal, showing the crystal chain, p. 37

Picture 2: The face of the Disloyal Seal showing a cherub holding a crown over an altar, p. 37

Picture 3: The armorial bearing on the Disloyal Seal, p. 38

Picture 4: The face of Henry Sacheverell on the Disloyal Seal, p. 38

Picture 5: Queen’s College, Oxford, frontage of Front Quad: gateway with domed cupola, p. 69

Editors

CONTRIBUTORS

William Gibsonis Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History.

Roberta Andersonis Senior Lecturer in History and co-director of the Centre for History and Culture at Bath Spa University.

Elaine Chalusis Professor of British History at the University of Liverpool.

Contributors

James J. Caudleis Associate Editor of the James Boswell Editions at Yale University.

William Gibsonis Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University. He has written widely on religious history in the long eighteenth century and has edited most recently

James C. Leescompleted his PhD at St Catharine’s College, Cam- bridge, in 2013, and has since held post-doctoral posts in Rome, Weimar and Gotha. He is currently adapting parts of his doctoral thesis on the German Catholic Enlightenment for publication. His article in this collection is a companion piece to a forthcoming article on the chaplains of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1729–51.

Ruth Paleyis editor of the Lords 1660–1832 section for the History of Parliament and formerly assistant keeper at the Public Records Office. She is editor ofArchives, the journal of the British Records Association.

Ralph Stevensis Tutor and Assistant Examiner, School of History & Archives, University College Dublin and was Jacobite Studies Trust Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London in 2015.

RELIGION, LOYALTY AND SEDITION: THE HANOVERIAN SUCCESSION OF 1714