Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Addressing, petitioning and the public
- 1 Petitions, oaths and addresses: Subscriptional activity during the civil wars
- 2 Cromwell’s trunks: The origins of the loyal address, 1658– 61
- 3 Addresses, abhorrences and associations: Subscriptional culture and memory in the 1680s
- 4 Adversarial addressing, 1701– 10
- 5 Who were the ‘public’?: Identifying the addressers
- 6 The performance of loyalty: Ritual in loyal addressing
- 7 From subjects to objects: The language of loyalty
- Conclusion
- Bibliography of archival and manuscript material consulted
- Index
7 - From subjects to objects: The language of loyalty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2026
Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Addressing, petitioning and the public
- 1 Petitions, oaths and addresses: Subscriptional activity during the civil wars
- 2 Cromwell’s trunks: The origins of the loyal address, 1658– 61
- 3 Addresses, abhorrences and associations: Subscriptional culture and memory in the 1680s
- 4 Adversarial addressing, 1701– 10
- 5 Who were the ‘public’?: Identifying the addressers
- 6 The performance of loyalty: Ritual in loyal addressing
- 7 From subjects to objects: The language of loyalty
- Conclusion
- Bibliography of archival and manuscript material consulted
- Index
Summary
This chapter employs corpus analysis software to chart the changing meaning of loyalty across the 17th and 18th century. Through an examination of the contents of collections of address from the 1650s to the 1750s, it charts how loyalty came to be associated with concepts and institutions rather than the person of the monarch. Nonetheless, it argues that this language of loyalty continued to be framed in emotional terms.
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- Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727 , pp. 184 - 206Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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