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  Interregnum
An interregnum is a period between monarchs, between popes of the Roman Catholic Church, emperors of Holy Roman Empire, Polish kings (elective monarchy) or between consuls of the Roman Republic.
The English Interregnum from 1649–1660 was a republican period in Britain, comprising the Commonwealth and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell after the regicide of Charles I and before the restoration of Charles II
A second English interregnum occurred between 23 December 1688, when James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution, and the installation of William III and Mary II as joint sovereigns on 13 February 1689 pursuant to the Declaration of Right.
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 English Interregnum Information
The English Interregnum was the period of parliamentary and military rule in the land occupied by modern-day England and Wales after the English Civil War.
It began with the regicide of Charles I in 1649 and ended with the restoration of Charles II in 1660.
The Scottish Presbyterian community was also disadvantaged by the Interregnum regime as most of them had taken the Solemn League and Covenant and had fought with the Scots against the Parliament in the Third Civil War (1649-50).
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  English Commonwealth and Protectorate - Search View - MSN Encarta
Supported by the English navy, he was victorious over superior forces in the Battle of Dunbar, on September 3, 1650.
The young Charles and his court were to spend the rest of the Interregnum in increasingly impoverished and disreputable exile on the Continent.
The Interregnum witnessed several changes of regime, as the politicians and military men who had defeated Charles I and abolished the monarchy wrestled with the problem of providing an alternative stable and strong government.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_781532227__1/English_Commonwealth_and_Protectorate.html   (2988 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Interregnum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
interregnum †temporary authority exercised during a vacancy; period intervening between a ruler and his successor.
Style of visual arts produced in Britain during the reign of the house of Stuart (1603–1714, excepting the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell).
An Interregnum of the Sign: The Emblematic Age in France.
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  Interregnum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An interregnum is a period between monarchs, between popes of the Roman Catholic Church, emperors of Holy Roman Empire, Polish kings (elective monarchy) or between consuls of the Roman Republic.
The English Interregnum from 1649–1660 was a republican period in Britain, comprising the Commonwealth and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell after the regicide of Charles I and before the restoration of Charles II
A second English interregnum occurred between 23 December 1688, when James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution, and the installation of William III and Mary II as joint sovereigns on 13 February 1689 pursuant to the Declaration of Right.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interregnum   (547 words)

  
 English Interregnum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The English Interregnum was the period of parliamentary and military rule in the land occupied by modern-day England and Wales after the English Civil War.
Charles Fleetwood the parliamentary commander in Ireland from 1652-1655 was viewed as being hostile to Catholics, Presbyterians and the pre-war English Protestant settlers at the expense of the radical new settlers.
Towards the end of the Interregnum, Parliamentarian generals, Charles Coote and Richard Boyle (who were also pre-war English settlers) seized the strong points in Ireland in preparation for the Restoration of the monarchy.
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 England (United Kingdom)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This seems to be at odds with the history of the Genoa flag where Filipo Nocetti gives information that English ships bore the cross so as to have safe passage into the port of Genoa, subsequently paying the King for this safe passage.
The earliest reference to the cross of St George as an English emblem (not flag) was in a roll of account relating to the Welsh War of 1277.
Since you have red in both the field of the arms of England and the Scottish lion rampant, the claws of the three English lions passant gardant and of the Scottish lion are all blue.
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The Scottish Presbyterian community was also disadvantaged by the Interregnum regime, as most of them had taken the Solemn League and Covenant and had fought with the Scots against the Parliament in the Third English Civil War (1649-50).
Charles Fleetwood the parliamentary commander in Ireland from 1652-1655 was viewed as being hostile to Catholics, Presbyterians, and the pre-war English Protestant settlers at the expense of the radical new settlers.
Towards the end of the Interregnum, Parliamentarian generals Charles Coote and Richard Boyle (who were also pre-war English settlers) seized the strong points in Ireland in preparation for the Restoration of the monarchy.
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 Sydney eScholarship Repository : Hopeful Politics: The Interregnum Utopias
The period of English history between the second Civil War and the Restoration opened up seemingly unlimited possibilities for shaping the country�s future.
Interregnum utopianism is shaped by the expectations and violence of the English Revolution and accordingly it is characterised by the heightened hopes and fears of its time.
It is this compromise that shapes the face of Interregnum utopianism and reflects a major aspect of the post-revolutionary political imagination in England.
ses.library.usyd.edu.au /handle/2123/703   (329 words)

  
 Beginning Eastward From London:
Although there were two English attempts at eastern markets, the British Muscany Co. of the 1550's and the Levant Co. of 1581, both proved to be futile because of their lack of organization and the hostility of other powers.
English merchants managed to create the basis for the emergence of the company, but the Company's legality had to be administered by Queen Elizabeth.
A century later Adam Smith stated that Mun's ideas contributed to "a fundamental maxim in the political economy not of England only, but of all other commercial countries." <24> Yet the fate of the Company was still under the control of the existing monarch.
www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1993-4/Godat.html   (2699 words)

  
 History 240
What were the longer-term consequences of the English Civil War and Interregnum.
English pretended their king was monarch of a single state called England.
English would not endure economic, political or social costs of a standing army.
web.uvic.ca /~jfedorak/EngRev.htm   (984 words)

  
 About Early English Books Online - EEBO
The collection comprehensively documents the magnificent English Renaissance - an era that witnessed the rebirth of classical humanism, the broadening of the known world, and the rapid spread of printing and education.
Spanning the tumultuous years of the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration, this collection continues the mission of STC I to preserve valuable research materials on microfilm.
This exceptional collection brings together for scholars of English history, politics, and religion nearly everything that was published in England and on the Continent during this critical period.
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 Scottish Monarchs - Kings and Queens of Scotland - John Balliol.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Balliol was born in 1248, most probably at Barnard Castle, he was the son of John, Baron Balliol, (the founder of Balliol College, Oxford) and his wife Devorguilla of Galloway and through her derived his claim to the throne of Scotland.
Edward I, one of the most formidable of English Kings, was asked by the Scots to arbitrate between these and other candidates for the honour.
In 1305, Wallace was treacherously betrayed by a fellow Scot and captured by the English.
www.englishmonarchs.co.uk /balliol.htm   (672 words)

  
 Scottish Monarchs - Kings and Queens of Scotland - Robert the Bruce.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The English King Edward I was asked to decide between the many candidates who claimed the Scottish crown, he selected John Balliol, who strictly speaking, had the slightly better hereditary right.
One of the first of the English knights to arrive at Bannockburn, Henry de Bohun, nephew of the Earl of Hereford, sighted the figure of the King of Scots on a highland pony, battle-axe in hand.
Other English knights that had followed him now fell among the pot-holes and spiked iron balls previously laid by the Scots and a hasty retreat was called.
www.englishmonarchs.co.uk /bruce.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Sources of English Constitutional History: Section 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Civil conflict and revolutionary government mark off the Interregnum as a gap in an otherwise unbroken story of constitutional growth, and impart to the pertinent documents a novelty that will be obvious even to the beginning student.
For the first and only time in English history, the state was given a written constitution — the Instrument of Government, led up to by a number of suggestions (among them nos.
The Interregnum, being an age of violent partisanship and of revolutionary change, naturally roused that interest to a new height.
www.constitution.org /sech/sech-009.htm   (479 words)

  
 UCSB Department of English
English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789 : Desire and the Family in the Long Eighteenth Century
During the Interregnum, and continuing well after the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, the symbolic importance of the father became a key element in literary representation.
Whether expressing a longing for the absent father (in royalist poetry such as that of Katherine Philips), or rebelling against the rule of a tyrannical king (Jefferson), family dynamics play an important role in the establishment of subjectivity during the long eighteenth century.
www.english.ucsb.edu /dept/courses-detail.asp?CourseID=211   (249 words)

  
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A trope or figure of speech characteristic of Old English diction in which two separate words are put together to form a single concept: "whale-road" for sea, for example, or "earth-vault" for underground cavern, or "oar-steed" for ship.
In English the chief example of the lyric poem is the sonnet.
The period of English governance represented by the return to rule of Charles II in 1660, who fled England during the Puritan Revolution and the Interregnum.
www.english.udel.edu /dean/205/205glossaryterms.html   (3515 words)

  
 English Legal History
Early English Books Online and Early English Books, 1475-1640 (Perkins Microforms) include many printed Year Book editions before 1700 as well as Ashe’s Promptuarie (1614), an index to the Year Books and early nominate reports (Short-Title Catalogue numbers for early Year Books are 9551 through 9967, and for the Vulgate are R1088A through R1088F).
The English Reports [Full Reprint] (1900-1930) (KD270 1220.E53) reprints many of the nominate reports published between 1378 and 1865, and is considered the main source for early English cases.
English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) covers monographs printed between 1475 and 1800 (choose “Advanced Search” then “Words from General Notes” to search by STC number).
www.law.duke.edu /lib/researchguides/englishlegal.html   (3721 words)

  
 Dale I
Old English, Latin and French were progenitors for legal EMnE, as borrowings from these latter two languages helped shape the later lexicon.
Old English words retained were less precise, yet were already ingrained in “boilerplate” legal language that relied on these phrases for their consistency.
Between the early fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries, common English language seems to have pursued the legal usage of the word as increases in the latter were invariably followed by increases in the former.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362Barleben1.htm   (2393 words)

  
 UCSB Department of English
Interregnum, that is, is to be found in the detachment of Charles's head: but it may also be found, with just as much lived momentousness, in the detachment of a child from its family.
atricia Fumerton is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has taught since 1987.
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
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 Department of English & Foreign Languages :: University of West Florida
Drama of the English Renaissance: The Stuart Period, ed.
English majors should also invest in a copy of Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers, (Latest Edition).
English Renaissance Drama (ENL 4161) is a course which will study the evolution of drama from Middle Ages to the close of the stage in the Puritan Interregnum.
uwf.edu /english/RenDrama.htm   (1022 words)

  
 The Literary Explorer - Literary Periods of British and American Literature, Printable Version
The Old English Period or the Anglo-Saxon Period refers to the literature produced from the invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes in the first half of the fifth century to the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror.
The English Augustan Age derives its name from the brilliant literary period of Vergil and Ovid under the Roman emperor Augustus (27 B.C. In English literature, the Augustan Age, 1700 - 1745, refers to literature with the predominant characteristics of refinement, clarity, elegance, and balance of judgement.
In 1848, a group of English artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, formed the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood." It was the aim of this group to return painting to a style of truthfulness, simplicity, and religious devotion that had reigned prior to Raphael and the high Italian Renaissance.
literaryexplorer.blondelibrarian.net /litpdstxt.html   (2577 words)

  
 The Holy See
The Papal Interregnum is an expression derived from Latin which means the period between the reign of one Pope and another.
The highest office holders, such as the Cardinals who are Prefects of Congregations and Presidents of Pontifical Councils and Commissions, all lose their offices with the death of the Pope.
There are two exceptions 1) the Cardinal who is Camerlengo or Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, an office which deals primarily with the period of the Papal Interregnum or Vacancy, and 2) the Cardinal who is the Major Penitentiary, and responsible for matters concerning the internal forum of conscience (e.g.
www.ewtn.com /holysee/Interregnum/terms.asp   (5595 words)

  
 interregnum - OneLook Dictionary Search
interregnum : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
INTERREGNUM : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Phrases that include interregnum: gerő interregnum, interregnum of severus, interregnum regent, saxon interregnum
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 The Renaissance Society of America
This seminar will focus on selected writing from the tumultuous decades of the English interregnum, roughly 1640-1660, with particular attention to the fields of science and religion.
We hope to recruit up to 12 scholars in the early stages of their careers working on any topic related to the seminar\'s concerns across the span of the seventeenth century.
Scholars need not be focused on English history in particular and those investigating continental events relevant to the seminar topic and time period are also welcome to apply.
www.rsa.org /announcement_details.php?id=205   (166 words)

  
 THE GIANT AHAP REVIEW
B/c the English were accustomed to dealing w/absolutist figures, they consistently overestimated the power of the Indian leaders.
After the bad experience w/Cromwell [the Interregnum] the English decided to restore the monarchy, so Charles II arrived [The Restoration].
Even the English monopoly didn’t really last though, b/c by the 1700s most trading was carried out by independent traders.
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