News, memory and the culture of the Stuart intervention into the Thirty Years War, 1624-1630: the bellicose days

Abstract

"Just as Charles I's reign ended upon the scaffold at the close of the British Civil Wars, it began in a disastrous entry into the Thirty Years' War. By studying the movement of people-soldiers, refugees, diplomats, exiles, merchants, and artists-and news and ideas between the Stuart kingdoms and the war-torn Continent, this book argues that the Thirty Years' War was the defining issue of the beginning of the young king's reign. This interdisciplinary cultural history brings together the words and images of these violent beginnings: the bellicose days" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Memories of Machination and Massacre -- Constructing a Kairos : an Anti-Habsburg Discourse at the Onset of War -- 'The Action on Which the World's Eye Is Turned' : the Siege of Breda and Disaster in the North -- The Cultural and Meteorological Shadows of Cádiz -- La Rochelle : Graveyard of Huguenot Liberties and Stuart Foreign Policy -- A Farewell to Arms? The End of the Bellicose Days.