Book of Donmon Teith

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This book reassesses the lives of the exiled Stuart Court in Italy which provided an important British presence in Rome.

For 11 years, from his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 until his death in 1701, James II lived in one of the most spectacular baroque palaces in

Facing persecution in early modern England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for thei