Hanging with History

59. Stuart Restoration Part 3; To Be a Phoenix; Memetic Disaster


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Memetic Disaster.  The Bloody Assizes and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, convincingly play into the memes of Catholic cruelty fitting a fact pattern the English are taught very young.   Catholic cruelty and injustice are acted out on the largest possible stage in 1685.

The episode takes its name from a poem by John Donne, which I read and relate to Harry Potter.

We bring the Stuart rule up to the Glorious Revolution.  

We look at the mystique of royal rule and how James II threw it away, along with the support of his natural base- the Tory Anglican gentry.   And Titus Oates did not help things at all….Murder on Primrose Hill

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