A01=Dominic Pearce
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Dominic Pearce
automatic-update
British Historical Biographies
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGR
Category=DNBH
Category=DNBR
Category=HBJD1
Category=HBLH
Category=NHD
Charles I
Charles II
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Great Britain History
History & Criticism
History of England
History of the Renaissance
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch
Stuart Britain History
Stuart Dynasty
Stuarts
Product details
- ISBN 9781445695198
- Weight: 677g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2023
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
James Graham was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier who joined the Covenanters but sided with Charles I as the English Civil War progressed. Through a string of brilliant military victories, Montrose won the civil war in Scotland until it was plain that Charles I’s failure in England was so total that nothing could be salvaged.
Montrose mesmerised all Europe. His triumphs make him one of the outstanding figures of the era. In the end he was a victim of politics, a fate he gave every sign of welcoming. If he could not prevail as a warrior, he preferred to pay the ultimate price. In his own exuberant writings, both prose and poetry, Montrose expresses an astonishing confidence in his Godgiven role as hero. Hanged and with his body mutilated and cut to pieces in 1650, in 1661 his limbs were brought back from Glasgow, Perth, Stirling and Aberdeen, his head removed from a spike and he was re-buried in Holyrood Abbey. This is the first full biography of this extraordinary man in fifty years.
Dominic Pearce studied Classics at New College, Oxford, before pursuing a career in financial analysis, which took him to Japan, Spain and Austria – countries where the modern world succeeds a rich historic tradition. Since then he has undertaken historical and cultural research on the seventeenth century in particular, and also on the practice of art. He has published a study of drawing in collaboration with Francis Hoyland called 'Greek Light'. He is the author of a biography of 'Henrietta Maria', and 'The King's Only Champion'. He lives in London.
