Peter Ackroyd Civil War 9781447260707

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Автор: Peter Ackroyd
Название: Civil War
Перевод названия: Петер Акройд: Гражданская война
ISBN: 9781447260707
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1447260708
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
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Дата издания: 25.09.2014
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of Englands history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king.

Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant - warts and all - portrayal of Charless nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliaments great military leader and Englands only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as that man of blood, the king he executed.

Englands turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeares late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.