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Title

Tudor political culture / edited by Dale Hoak.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Hoak, Dale.

Description

xxiii, 326 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• This book of original scope and methodology consists of twelve interdisciplinary essays on the 'high' political culture of Tudor and early Stuart England. Through the exploitation of new manuscript material or hitherto untapped artistic sources - the plates reproduce over sixty contemporary images - the authors open up new perspectives on the ideas, institutions, and rituals of political society.
• Drawing on the evidence of art and literature, and using the latest techniques for the discovery of lost mentalities, key aspects of Tudor political culture are explored, including royal iconography, funereal symbolism, parliamentary elections, political vocabularies, kinship and family at court and in the country, and the architecture of urban authority.
• In his Introduction the editor uses the example of Henry VIII's historical break with Rome to suggest the seamless links between politics and political culture, how and why the revolution of the 1530s needs to be seen against the backdrop of early-Tudor memories of Henry V, the cult of chivalry and the invasion of France (1513), and the pre-Reformation imagery of 'imperial' kingship.

Subject

Great Britain > Politics and government > 1485-1603

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Geoffrey Elton -- 1. On the road to 1534: the occupation of Tournai and Henry VIII's theory of sovereignty / Thomas F. Mayer -- 2. Family and kinship relations at the Henrician court: the Boleyns and Howards / Retha M. Warnicke -- 3. The iconography of the crown imperial / Dale Hoak -- 4. The royal image, 1535-1603 / John N. King -- 5. Political culture and the built environment of the English country town, c. 1540-1620 / Robert Tittler -- 6. Country into court, court into country: John Scudamore of Holme Lacy (c. 1541-1623) and his circles / W. J. Tighe -- 7. Death be very proud: Sidney, subversion, and Elizabethan heraldic funerals / J. F. R. Day -- 8. 'O, 'tis a gallant king': Shakespeare's Henry V and the crisis of the 1590s / Peter C. Herman -- 9. Parliament and the political society of Elizabethan England / Norman Jones -- 10. Image and ritual in the Tudor parliaments / David Dean.
• 11. The countervailing of benefits: monopoly, liberty, and benevolence in Elizabethan England / David Harris Sacks -- 12. The rhetoric of counsel in early modern England / John Guy.

ISBN

0521404940

LCCN

94000760

OCLC

• 29878190
• ocm29878190

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Columbia University Libraries