Thesaurus entry: manslaughter

Article: The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I.(Book Review)
The Historian;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Regicides and the Execution ... Charles, a reluctant regicide, and a firm monarchist ... the motives of the regicides. Scott focuses on the eight regicides from the north of ... group for whom the regicide went too far, Presbyterian ...

Article: Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671.
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... mode for combining the tragedy of the regicide with the comic ending of restoration ... usurpation, tyranny, rebellion, and regicide. Dryden's The Indian Emperour, Tyrannick ... account of literary and cultural change, Regicide and Restoration revitalizes the drama ...

Article: Jason Peacey, ed. The Regicides and the Execution of ...
Albion;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... essays offers a timely reassessment of the regicide. As the editor points out, there has ... the motivation of a group of northern regicides emphasizes the Scottish dimension. What ... Charles and monarchy, but opposed the regicide and ended up apparently supporting some ...

Article: The king is dead, long live the crown: on the anniversary of the ...
History Today;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... lasting the condemnation of the regicide would be. Charles's death ... and character. How had the regicide come about? The MPs who went ... trial of the king. Yet the regicide was a huge risk. Not only ... take the king's place. The regicides of 1649 had none. What were ...

Encyclopedia entry: regicides
The Oxford Companion to British History;      313 words ...regicides. After the second civil war in 1648, most army leaders despaired of ... Bradshaw were taken from Westminster abbey and hanged at Tyburn. Of the 41 regicides still alive, 9 were put to death. Thomas Harrison , one of Cromwell ...

Dictionary definition: regicide
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      273 words ...regicide any of those who took part in the trial and execution of Charles I; after the Restoration , several of the regicides were tried and executed, and the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and others were dug up, drawn on a hurdle to Tyburn, displayed ...

Article: Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Nicolas Le Roux. Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L'assassinat d'Henri III, 1er aout 1589. Les ... assassination seven months later resulted in a crisis of legitimacy--a "regicide symbolique" (161)--and a reconfiguration of monarchical institutions ...