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Eikon Basilike
Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king’s motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King’s Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents. This Broadview edition’s critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and its authorship, while the appendices provide a generous selection of contemporary responses to Eikon Basilike and accounts of the king’s trial and scaffold speech.
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Eikon Basilike
Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king’s motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King’s Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents. This Broadview edition’s critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and its authorship, while the appendices provide a generous selection of contemporary responses to Eikon Basilike and accounts of the king’s trial and scaffold speech.
Eikon Basilike
Excerpt from Eikon Basilike: Or the King's Book The Eikon Basilike, from its very first appearance, awakened much sympathy for the King, and the question of its authorship was, of course, disputed; and has been often dis cussed. A claim to the authorship of the book was set up by Dr. Gauden. In a "Bibliography of the King's Book" (Blades, East & Blades, London, 1896), I expressed my views, and gave the main evidence on both sides. For comparison with the style of "Eikon Basilike," passages from a book known to have been actually written by Gauden, in 1648, are given on page 13 of the "Bibliography," where they will be found, together with Dr. Christopher's reference to them. The following ar...
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T His last Parliament I called, not more by others advice, and necessity of My affairs, then by my own choice and inclination; who have always thought the right way of Parliaments most safe for My Crown, and best pleasing to my People: And although I was not forgetfull of those sparks, which some mens distempers formerly studied to kindle in Parliaments, (which by forbearing to convene for some years, I hoped to have extinguished) yet resolving with My self to give all just satisfaction to modest and sober desires, and to redress all publick grievances in Church and State; I hoped (by My freedom and their moderation) to prevent all mis-understandings and miscarriages in this: In which as I feared, affairs would meet with some passion and prejudice in other men, so I resolved they should finde least of them in my self; not doubting, but by the weight of Reason I should counterpoiz the over-ballancing of any Factions.
Eikon Basilike
This is a very important book, because it helped to develop and sustain the image of Charles I as a martyr, who was misunderstood and wrongly beheaded. It was in print on the day of his execution and became a best-seller. Many believe that it was co-authored by Gauden (Bishop of Worcester) and Charles I himself.
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