The Jacobites at Urbino: An Exiled Court in Transition - Hardcover

by E. Corp (Author)

Following the Glorious Revolution the court of the exiled Stuarts was for many years based in France, until after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, it was forced to move, eventually to be established in Rome. This book provides the first study of the court in transition, when exiled King James III lived in the Palazzo Ducale at Urbino.

Author Biography

EDWARD CORP is Professor of British History, University of Toulouse, France. He has curated and written the catalogues of two major exhibitions, La Cour des Stuarts à Saint-Germain-en-Laye au temps de Louis XIV (Château de Saint-Germain, 1992) and The King over the Water, 1688-1766 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2001). His other publications include A Court in Exile: the Stuarts in France, 1689-1718 (2004).