Reading authority and representing rule in early modern England /
Sharpe, Kevin(Kevin M.)
London : Bloomsbury,
2013.
Reading authority and representing rule: Introduction. -- Part 1: Reading authority. Reading James writing: The subject of royal writings in Jacobean Britain ; Uncommon places: Sir William Drake's reading notes ; Reading revelations: Prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain, 1560-1720 ; Transplanting revelation, transferring meaning: Reading the apocalypse in early modern England, Scotland and New England. -- Part 2: Representing rule. Sacralization and demystification: The publicization of monarchy in early modern England ; Virtues, passions and politics in early modern England ; Van Dyck, the royal image and the Caroline court ; 'So hard a text'? Images of Charles I, 1612-1700 ; 'Something of monarchy': Miltron and Cromwell, republicanism and regality ; Restoration and reconstitution: Politics, society and culture in the England of Charles II ; 'Thy longing country's darling and desire': Aesthetics, sex and politics in the England of Charles II ; Whose life is it anyway? Writing early modern monarchs and the 'Life' of James II.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]- 315) and index.
Monarchy
Public opinion