Contents -- illustrations -- preface and acknowledgements -- introduction -- writing divine right -- figuring stuart dynasty -- staging stuart dynasty -- contesting the king -- prologue: a failure of image? -- the words and silences of a king -- depicting virtue and majesty -- performing sacred kingship -- demystifying majesty -- prologue: the civil war and the contest for representation -- wars of words and paper bullets -- visual conflicts and wars of signs -- rival rituals and performances -- part iv representing republic
PROLOGUE: REPRESENTING REPUBLICWRITING REPUBLIC -- A REPUBLICAN BRAND? -- STAGING REPUBLIC -- SUBVERTING THE COMMONWEALTH -- PART V REPRESENTATIONS AND REACTIONS: IMAGES OF THE -- CROMWELLIAN PROTECTORATE -- PROLOGUE: �BRING CROWNES AND SCEPTERS� -- PROCLAIMING PROTECTORATE -- PAINTING PROTECTORAL POWER -- PROTECTORAL PERFORMANCES -- CONTESTING AND COMMEMORATING CROMWELL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary
This title, the second in Kevin Sharpe's trilogy exploring image, power, and communication in early modern England examines its importance during the turbulent 17th century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 544-644) and index
