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Monod, Paul Kleber was born on June 25, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Kléber Michel Louis Monod and Joan Donovan.
(Jacobitism, or support for the exiled Stuarts after the r...)
Jacobitism, or support for the exiled Stuarts after the revolution of 1688, has become a topic of great interest in recent years. Historians have debated its influence on Parliamentary politics, but none has yet attempted to explore its broader implications in English society. This study offers a wide-ranging analysis of every aspect of Jacobite activity, from pamphlets and newspapers to songs, cartoons, riots, seditious words, clubs, and armed insurrection. It argues that Jacobitism was not confined to a tiny group of fanatical reactionaries, and that it had a profound impact on various aspects of English life including political thought, literature, popular culture, religion, and elite sociability. It contributed a great deal both to the emergence of conservative attitudes in eighteenth-century England and to the development of a radical critique of Whig government. This paradoxical legacy makes Jacobitism a subject of considerable significance in English political, social, and cultural history.
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(On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed...)
On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this grueome crime happen? What does it reveal about the political, economic, and cultural patterns that existed in this small English port town? To answer these questions, this book takes us back to the mid-16th century, when religious and social tensions began to fragment the quiet town of Rye and led to witch hunts, riots and violent political confrontations. Paul Monod examines events over the course of the next two centuries, tracing the town's transition as it moved from narrowly focussed Reformation norms to the more expansive ideas of the emerging commercial society. In the process, relations among the town's inhabitants were fundamentally altered. The history of Rye mirrored that of the whole nation and it gives us an intriguing perspective on England in the early modern period.
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(In the sixteenth century, the kings of Europe were like g...)
In the sixteenth century, the kings of Europe were like gods to their subjects. Within 150 years, however, this view of monarchs had altered dramatically: a king was the human, visible sign of the rational state. How did such a momentous shift in political understanding come about? This sweeping book explores the changing cultural significance of the power of European kings from the assassination of France's Henry III to the death of Louis XIV. Paul Kléber Monod draws on political history, political philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and literature to understand the relationship between kings and their political subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion. He also makes use of 35 paintings and statues to illuminate the changing public images of kings. Discussing monarchies throughout Europe, from Britain to Russia, Monod tells how sixteenth-century kings and queens were thought to heal the sick with a touch, were mediators between divine authority and the Christian self in quasi-religious ceremonies, and were seen as ideal mirrors of human identity. By 1715, the sacred authority of the monarchy had been supplanted by an ideology fusing internal moral responsibility with external obedience to an abstract political authority. Subjects were expected to identify not with a sacred king but with the natural person of the ruler. No longer divine, the kings and queens of the Enlightenment took up a new, more human place in the hearts and minds of their subjects.
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(The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589-...)
The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589-1715 The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589-1715 by Monod, Paul Kleber ( Author ) Paperback Aug- 2001 Paperback Aug- 11- 2001
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Monod, Paul Kleber was born on June 25, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Kléber Michel Louis Monod and Joan Donovan.
Monod graduated Bachelor from Princeton University in May 1978, then spent a number of years at Yale, graduating Master of Arts in 1979, Master of Philosophy in 1980, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1985.
Since 1984 he has taught at Middlebury College, Vermont, where he is now A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History, and he is the author of a number of books and articles dealing with his period. Monod"s main teaching career has been at Middlebury College since 1984, when he was appointed as an assistant professor In 1990–1991 he was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, between 1993 and 1994 he taught at the summer courses of the Complutense University of Madrid, and he was a visiting lecturer at the Aston Magna Academy at Yale in 1997.
In 2000–2001 he was a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
The Murder of Mr Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town (2003) begins with the murder of a justice of the peace in the English port of Rye in 1743, considering its background as far back as the Reformation of the 16th century, then looks at events over the next two hundred years. His book Solomon"s Secret Arts (2013) grew out of work he did in the 1990s on the papers of Samuel Jeake (1623–1690), an astrologer.
(The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589-...)
(Jacobitism, or support for the exiled Stuarts after the r...)
(On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed...)
(In the sixteenth century, the kings of Europe were like g...)
His doctoral dissertation at Yale was entitled The King shall enjoy his own again: English Jacobitism, 1688-1780. His first book, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (1989) has been considered "an important monograph", although it has also been criticized for being "overly sympathetic to the Stuart cause."
The King shall enjoy his own again: English Jacobitism, 1688-1780 (Yale dissertation, 1985)
Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
"Jacobitism and Country Principles in the Reign of William III", in The Historical Journal, 30 (1987), pp. 290–310
"Dangerous Merchandise: Smuggling, Jacobitism, and Commercial Culture in Southeast England, 1690-1760", in Journal of British Studies, XXX (1991), pp.
President John Graham Emergency Shelter, Vergennes, Vermont, since 2006. Member of New England History Association (president 2003-2004).
Married Jan Maria Albers, August 11, 1984. 1 child Evan Albers.