{"product_id":"authority-authorship-and-aristocratic-identity-in-seventeenth-century-england-9789004326200","title":"Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including,  centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil Wars, and the ensuing Commonwealth and Restoration of the monarchy.  William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and  his Political, Social and Cultural Connections: Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth Century England brings together a series of interrelated essays that present William Cavendish, his family, household and connections as an aristocratic, royalist case study, relating the intellectual and political underpinnings and implications of their beliefs, actions and writings to wider cultural currents in England and mainland Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations  I: Aristocratic Identity  Adrian Woodhouse    Setting the Scenes : the pre-Civil War building works of William Cavendish in context  Elspeth Graham    ‘An After-Game of Reputation’: Systems of Representation, William Cavendish and the Battle of Marston Moor  Alison Findlay    Flogging a Dead Horse?: Margaret Cavendish and the Pursuit of Authority  Lisa Hopkins    The Concealed Fancies and Cavendish Identity  Malcolm Airs    Courtly Rivalry: the Context for William Cavendish’s Equestrian Buildings    II: Politics and Authority  Tim Raylor    Hobbes, the Cavendishes and the Science of Motion  Lisa Sarasohn    The Role of Honour in the Life of William Cavendish and the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes \t\t  Andy Hopper    William Cavendish as a Military Commander  Madeline Dewhurst    The Double-Edged Sword: William Cavendish’s Political Career in Exile, 1644-60  James Fitzmaurice    Whimsy, Medieval Romance and the Court in the Life of William Cavendish    III: Horsemanship, Authority and Identity  Elaine Walker    ‘The Epitome of Horsemanship’: William Cavendish’s Method ‘anatomized’  Monica Mattfeld    Embodying ‘Bonne Homme a Cheval’: William Cavendish and the Politics of the Centaur   Peter Edwards    Manèging to survive: Horsemanship and the Rehabilitation of the Exiled William Cavendish  Richard Nash    William Cavendish: Riding School and Race-Track  Karen Raber    Cavendish’s Horsemanship Treatises and Cultural Capital  Index Nominum","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210691666263,"sku":"9789004326200","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/authority-authorship-and-aristocratic-identity-in-seventeenth-century-england-9789004326200","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}