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For over seventy years after the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-90, Jacobitism survived in the face of Whig propaganda. These essays seek to challenge current views of Jacobite historiography. They focus on migrant communities, networking, smuggling, shipping, religious and intellectual support mechanisms, art, architecture and identity.
List of contents
Introduction: Living with Jacobitism 1 Th e First Jacobite and the Scottish Parliament 2 Th e Scottish Jacobite Community at Saint-Germain aft er the Departure of the Stuart Court 3 Liturgy: Th e Sacramental Soul of Jacobitism 4 'Zealous in the Defence of the Protestant Religion and Liberty': Th e Making of Whig Scotland, c. 1688-c. 1746 5 Jonathan Swift 's Memoirs of a Jacobite 6 'Female Rebels': Th e Female Figure in Anti-Jacobite Propaganda 7 Commerce and the Jacobite Court: Scottish Migrants in France, 1688-1718 8 Ultramontane Ultras: Th e Intellectual Character of Irish Students at the University of Paris 9 To a Fair Meeting on the Green: Th e Order of Toboso and Jacobite Fraternalism, 1726-c. 1739 10 English and Scottish Jacobite Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome 11 Polite War: Material Culture of the Jacobite Era, 1688-1760 12 Robert Adam: 'My Mother's Dear British Boy' 13 From Jacobite to Jacobin: Robert Watson's Life in Opposition 14 Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Th e Young Chevalier': Unimagined Space
About the author
Kieran German is a teaching fellow at the University of Strathclyde. Allan I. Macinnes is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Strathclyde. Lesley Graham is a senior lecturer at the Universite de Bordeaux , France.
Summary
For over seventy years after the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688–90, Jacobitism survived in the face of Whig propaganda. These essays seek to challenge current views of Jacobite historiography. They focus on migrant communities, networking, smuggling, shipping, religious and intellectual support mechanisms, art, architecture and identity.
