A Gambling Man
Charles II and the Restoration
(Sprache: Englisch)
A Gambling Man by Jenny Uglow is a portrait of Charles II and the first decade of the Restoration: a time of glamour and gossip, charade and risk.
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A Gambling Man by Jenny Uglow is a portrait of Charles II and the first decade of the Restoration: a time of glamour and gossip, charade and risk.
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Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled with his father's beheading. 'Honour' was now a word tossed around in duels. 'Providence' could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. Exactly ten years later Charles II would stand again on the shore at Dover, laying the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV. The Restoration decade was one of experiment: from the science of the Royal Society to the startling role of credit and risk, from the shocking licence of the court to the failed attempts at toleration of different beliefs. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the 'slippery sovereign', played odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theatres were restored, but the king was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court and his colourful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden.
A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, racked with plague, fire and war, in which the risks the king took forged the fate of the nation, on the brink of the modern world.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jenny Uglow
- 2009, 592 Seiten, Maße: 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571217338
- ISBN-13: 9780571217335
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A Gambling Man is a glorious romp of a book, filled with glittering anecdotes about Britain at its most glamorous and easy-going best. ... A double biography of both a man and his age which gleams with a rare kind of intimacy. Here is popular history at its compelling best. Kathryn Hughes Mail on Sunday
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