Selling the Tudor monarchy : authority and image in sixteenth-century England /

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Author / Creator:	Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.)
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Description:	xxix, 588 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Tudor, House of -- Public opinion. Monarchy -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 16th century. Kings and rulers -- Public opinion. Monarchy -- Public opinion. Politics and government Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Public opinion. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603. Great Britain. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7708855

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ISBN:	9780300140989 0300140983
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [482]-572) and index.
Summary:	"The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first century politics. Here a leading historian reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves to their people through the media of building, print, art, material culture and speech. Deploying what we might now describe as 'spin', Tudor rulers worked actively as patrons and popularisers to present themselves to the best advantage. Familiarity, however, brought risk. The art of royal representation was a delicate balance between mystification and popularisation ... Yet relentless promotion of the royal image had desacralised it, leaving a difficult legacy for their Stuart successors. This first sustained analysis of the verbal and visual representations of Tudor power embraces art history, literary studies and the history of consumption and material culture ..."--Book jacket flap.
Other form:	Online version: Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.) Selling the Tudor monarchy. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Concepts And Methods
1. Representing Rule: Terms, Premises, Approaches
II. Tudor Foundations
2. Founding a Dynasty, Forging an Image
III. Representations And Reformations
3. Writing Reformation
4. Images of Royal Supremacy
5. Performing Supremacy
6. Contesting Supremacy
IV. Representing Godly Kingship
7. Representations of Edward VI
V. Representations And Reactions
8. Images of Mary Tudor
VI. Representing Gloriana
Prologue
9. The Words of a Queen
10. 'The Portrait and Picture of the Queen's Majesty'
11. 'Viewed and Beheld of all Men': Queen Elizabeth and the Performance of Majesty
12. Contesting and Appropriating Elizabeth
Epilogue
Notes
Index

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