Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles IIUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1996 - 292 páginas The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word.Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped brin. |
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... kingdom . In surrendering his staff , the mayor acknowledges the now potent authority of the fourteen - year exile and wanderer ; in presenting a Bible he both confirms the returning king's status as God's anointed on earth and also ...
... kingdom . In surrendering his staff , the mayor acknowledges the now potent authority of the fourteen - year exile and wanderer ; in presenting a Bible he both confirms the returning king's status as God's anointed on earth and also ...
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... kingdom , providing a ritualistic way to embrace both high— " great and eminent Troops of Horse , in a most splendid and glorious equipage " —and low— " a kind of rurall Triumph , exprest by the Country swains , in a Morrice - dance ...
... kingdom , providing a ritualistic way to embrace both high— " great and eminent Troops of Horse , in a most splendid and glorious equipage " —and low— " a kind of rurall Triumph , exprest by the Country swains , in a Morrice - dance ...
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... kingdom . Peter Burke notes that in an early seventeenth - century sample , 76 percent of the craftsmen and shopkeepers in the city could sign their name , while Valerie Pearl suggests that seventeenth - century London possessed more ...
... kingdom . Peter Burke notes that in an early seventeenth - century sample , 76 percent of the craftsmen and shopkeepers in the city could sign their name , while Valerie Pearl suggests that seventeenth - century London possessed more ...
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... kingdom , had symbolized the seamless relationship between sovereign and subject.49 In exacting justice on the monarch's body , Parliament determined to sunder that sacrosanct rela- tionship , the emphasis on paternity and posterity in ...
... kingdom , had symbolized the seamless relationship between sovereign and subject.49 In exacting justice on the monarch's body , Parliament determined to sunder that sacrosanct rela- tionship , the emphasis on paternity and posterity in ...
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... kingdom ? To a large extent , royal attempts at censorship depended on regulating the economics of printing , the specific trade practices that governed relations between writers and publishers , printers , and book- sellers . Yet ...
... kingdom ? To a large extent , royal attempts at censorship depended on regulating the economics of printing , the specific trade practices that governed relations between writers and publishers , printers , and book- sellers . Yet ...
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Restoration and Escape The Incognito King and Providential History | 25 |
The Monarchs Sacred Body The Kings Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing | 50 |
The Monarchs Profane Body His scepter and his prick are of a length | 88 |
The feminine part of every rebellion The Public Royal Power and the Mysteries of Printing | 131 |
The very Oracles of the Vulgar Stephen College and the Author on Trial | 172 |
Conclusion | 209 |
Notes | 214 |
Bibliography | 260 |
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