The Glorious Revolution

Historical Context Essay

Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

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Changes of government, elections and reigns
Civil Wars, Revolutions and Insurrections

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Date of occurrence 1688-1689

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United Kingdom (Location)

The Glorious Revolution was a coup d’état in which the Roman Catholic King James II of England (VII of Scotland) was deposed and replaced at Parliament’s instigation by his nephew and son-in-law, William of Orange, and his daughter Mary Stuart. The event is sometimes referred to as the “Bloodless Revolution”, even though it was a contributory cause of two European wars and the direct cause of two unsuccessful “Jacobite” rebellions which attempted to restore James’s heirs to the throne. In the long view, James II was the victim of the religious struggle in Britain between Catholicism and Protestantism which had persisted since the Reformation. The Glorious Revolution was also the culmination of the …

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Citation: Seager, Nicholas. "The Glorious Revolution". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 August 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=477, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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