Lecture: The Sobieski-Stuart Marriage & the Jacobite World

This lecture accompanies the current Gallery exhibition: 'Rebels With a Cause: The Jacobites and the Global Imagination'

Speaker: Professor Robert I. Frost. British Academy/Wolfson Foundation Research Chair, Department of History

Venue: Seminar Room, Special Collections Centre, Lower Ground Floor, University Library

This lecture, draws on materials from the University's rich holdings of Jacobite material  to examine the marriage of James III, the Stuart claimant to the British throne, to Clementina Sobieska, granddaughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland. It uses this marriage to explore Charles Edward Stuart's Polish heritage and the political world of the Stuart dynasty, and to pose questions about the nature of the Jacobite legacy in modern Scotland.

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