The Drama of coronation
Subtitle: medieval ceremony in early modern England
By: Alice Hunt.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521885393
Subjects: Coronations -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The "idol" ceremony of coronation; title: Why crown a king? : Henry VIII and the medieval coronation; title: "Come my love thou shalbe crowned": the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation; title: "But a ceremony" :; title: Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan; title: "He hath sent marye our soveraigne and quene" : England's first queen and respublica; title: "A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle" : Representing Elizabeth I's coronation; title: Epilogue: "presume not that I am the thing I was".