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'James was a king tragically trapped by principle. Yet was it wise to attempt to change the national religion?' The short reign of James II is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history, ending in his exile after he unsuccessfully tried to convert England to Catholicism, a crisis that would haunt the monarchy for generations. Ultimately, David Womersley's biography shows, James was a man whose blindness to subtlety and political reality brought about his ruinous downfall.… (más)
One of Penguin's biographies of British monarchs. Without overlooking the breadth of the subject this is merely a glimpse of James II's short turbulent reign from 1685-1688. As Duke of York (for which New York is named) James was influential before succeeding to the throne when his brother Charles II died without children. But the joy of the still fresh Restoration abated when The "Popish Plot" and James' secret conversion to Catholicism gave rise to the political Exclusion Crisis that, although it failed, ushered in new political tactics. When William, Prince of Orange, was invited by nobles to come to England with an army, prepared to invade, James II effectively abdicated when he declined to attack the invading army. Womersley's sources include historians of the period including some interesting comments by Samuel Pepys.
This is an excellent summary that would serve well as a starting point for further study of a fascinating era. ( )
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James II reigned for less than four years, from February 1685 to November 1688.
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In a petulant gesture, so expressive of his lack of understanding of political realities, James threw the Great Seal into the river as he fled, hoping thereby to immobilize public business.
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His brain was deposited in the chapel of the Scots College in Paris, in the rue du Cardinal Lemoine, where a marble monument to the last Roman Catholic King of England yet survives.
'James was a king tragically trapped by principle. Yet was it wise to attempt to change the national religion?' The short reign of James II is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history, ending in his exile after he unsuccessfully tried to convert England to Catholicism, a crisis that would haunt the monarchy for generations. Ultimately, David Womersley's biography shows, James was a man whose blindness to subtlety and political reality brought about his ruinous downfall.
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This is an excellent summary that would serve well as a starting point for further study of a fascinating era. (