The 2017 Historical Research/Wiley lecture was designed to raise some general issues about the nature of ‘civil wars’ as a prelude to a conference that looked at many examples across time and space. It takes the events of the sixteen-forties across Britain and Ireland and notes that very few participants accepted (at least publicly) that they were engaged in one or more civil wars. There was widespread seventeenth-century understanding that the term ‘civil war’ (bellum civile) had been developed in late republican and early imperial Rome but as just one of several terms used to analyse and describe internal wars and conflicts. This article explores the implications of this for our understanding of the first great crisis of the Stuart kingdoms.

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作为内战的英国革命

2017 年历史研究/威利讲座旨在提出一些关于“内战”本质的一般问题，作为会议的序幕，该会议研究了许多跨时空的例子。它以英国和爱尔兰 16 世纪 40 年代的事件为背景，并指出很少有参与者接受（至少公开）他们参与了一场或多场内战。17 世纪人们普遍认为，“内战”（bellum Civile）一词是在共和时代晚期和罗马帝国早期发展起来的，但只是用于分析和描述内部战争和冲突的几个术语之一。本文探讨了这对我们理解斯图亚特王国第一次大危机的意义。