The Stuart Court in Rome
The Legacy of Exile
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2019
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978-1-138-71058-0 (ISBN)
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Title first published in 2003. When the Stuarts left Britain after the 'Glorious Revolution' they established an important court in exile, first in France, then for most of the eighteenth century in Italy. Jacobites who could not hope to see their careers furthered at the Hanoverian court in London maintained their loyalty to James III, the 'King over the Water', and his son 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. The Stuart Court in Rome describes the court as a centre of cultural patronage, particularly of music and painting, and considers whether it lived up to the idealized picture celebrated by Jacobites in Britain. The financial vicissitudes of James III and his entourage are uncovered, and the influence of Hanoverian agents such as Baron von Stosch. The book investigates links between the Stuarts and Freemasonry; presents new evidence for the Stuart descent; and recounts the dispersal and acquisition of Stuart portraits and other relics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Contents: Preface; Introduction, Edward Corp; 'Revirescit': The exilic origins of the Stuart oak motif, Eirwen E.C. Nicholson; The image of the court: idealism, politics and the evolution of the Stuart Court, 1689-1730, Daniel Szechi; The financial vicissitudes of James III in Rome, Edward Gregg; The Stuart presence at the opera in Rome, Jane Clark; Mysterious Jacobite iconography, Victoria Thorpe; The Stuarts' last secret: the children of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, Peter Pininski; The acquisition of Stuart silver and other relics by the Dukes of Hamilton, Godfrey Evans; 'For Stuart blood is in my veins' (Queen Victoria): The British monarchy's collection of imagery and objects associated with the exiled Stuarts from the reign of George III to the present day, Kathryn Barron; Conclusion, Edward Corp; Index.