Robert Brady's Intellectual History and Royalist Antipopery in Restoration England
Jacqueline Rose
The tory reaction of the early 1680s witnessed an assault by royalists on intellectual genealogy their opponents, tracing whig ideas to Catholic and Calvinist roots. This attack was epitomized in Oxford University's anathematisation burning seditious books 1683. It also embodied additions made Robert Brady, court physician master Caius College, Cambridge, his True Exact History Succession 1681 when he republished it 1684. As this article shows, actions Brady were representative culture political memory amongst Restoration who penned histories ideas. popular sovereignty papal deposition monarchs traced from perceived medieval origins through scholastic descent reiteration Counter-Reformation Jesuit theorists. A parallel history resistance theory tracked mid sixteenth century nonconformists via Elizabethan puritans Civil War preachers. In learned tomes, pamphlets, verse, conflated Catholic, Calvinist, heterodoxy, argument reiterated after Revolution Mary Astell. labelling such as ‘popish’, whatever origin, highlights a little recognised royalist strain antipopery. addition providing account ideas, thus offers alternative approach royalism than question ‘absolutist’ or ‘constitutionalist’.
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