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Royal Image - Representations of Charles I

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Klappentext This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I. Zusammenfassung Charles I was the only English monarch to be tried and executed! and this volume examines the resulting crisis in the representation of the monarchy. It addresses not only the period of mid-century crisis but also the earlier years of Charles's reign and the afterlife of his royal image. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Duke, Prince and King: problems, transitions and transformations in the early representation of Charles I Thomas N Corns; 2. 'A ball of strife': Caroline poetry and royal marriage Ann Baynes Coiro; 3. Popular representations of Charles I Joad Raymond; 4. 'Incendiaries of the State': Charles I and tyranny Martin Dzelzainis; 5. The King among radicals: godly Republicans, Levellers, Diggers and Fifth Monarchists David Loewenstein; 6. Eikon Basilike and the rhetoric of self-representation Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler; 7. Milton and King Charles Sharon Achinstein; 8. The King's Music Jonathan P. Wainwright; 8. The visual image of Charles I John Peacock; 10. The royal martyr in the Restoration: national grief and national sin Lois Potter; 11. Reviving the martyr king: Charles I as Jacobite icon Laura Lunger Knuppers; 12. The royal image: an afterword Kevin Sharpe; Index.

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Authors Thomas N. Corns, Thomas N. (University of Wales Corns
Assisted by Thomas N. Corns (Editor), Thomas N. (University of Wales Corns (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.08.2009
 
EAN 9780521118705
ISBN 978-0-521-11870-5
No. of pages 336
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

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