In Civil Conflict, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England’s historical past, starting with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the loss of life of Elizabeth I turned the primary Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II.
The Stuart dynasty introduced collectively the 2 nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm nonetheless marked by political divisions that echo to today. Extra importantly, maybe, the Stuart period was marked by the merciless depredations of civil struggle, and the killing of a king.
Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the brand new King was eloquent on issues as various as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, however his perspective to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that may cut up the nation within the reign of his hapless inheritor, Charles I. Ackroyd affords a superb – warts and all – portrayal of Charles’s nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament’s nice navy chief and England’s solely dictator, who started his profession as a political liberator however ended it as a lot of a despot as ‘that man of blood’, the king he executed.
England’s turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out earlier than us, however so too is the cultural and social lifetime of the interval, notable for its terribly wealthy literature, together with Shakespeare’s late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes’ nice philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil Conflict additionally offers us a really actual sense of the lives of odd English women and men, lived out towards a backdrop of fixed disruption and uncertainty.
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