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The Cult of King Charles the Martyr

The Cult of King Charles the Martyr

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History, Book 7

General ChristianityBritish History

ISBN10: 0851159222
ISBN13: 9780851159225
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Mar 20 2003
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.96
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
The first study to deal exclusively with the cult and the political theology underpinning it, taking the story up to 1859.

The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649. Its component parts were fashioned during Charles's captivity and were readily available to preachers and eulogists in the weeks and monthsafter the regicide. However, it was the publication of the Eikon Basilike in early February 1649 that established the image of Charles as a suffering, innocent king, walking in the footsteps of his Saviour to his own Calvary at Whitehall. The figure of the martyr and the shared set of images and beliefs surrounding him contributed to the survival of royalism and Anglicanism during the years of exile.

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