The “grave of oblivion”: Remembering the English Civil War in Sir Thomas Fairfax’s Short Memorials (1699)
Writing against oblivion was a matter of urgency for witnesses of the English Civil Wars who sought to vindicate their past actions and restore historical truth on the basis of their first-hand experience of the conflict. Despite the “Act of Oblivion” (1660) seditious memories did not disappear afte...
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2024-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/1718/13503 |
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