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Selling the Tudor Monarchy - Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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Selling the Tudor Monarchy - Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool
of twenty-first- century politics. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth
century, British monarchs deployed what we might now describe as
"spin." In this book a leading historian reveals how Tudor kings
and queens sought to enhance their authority by presenting
themselves to best advantage. Kevin Sharpe offers the first full
analysis of the verbal and visual representations of Tudor power,
embracing disciplines as diverse as art history, literary studies,
and the history of consumption and material culture. The author
finds that those rulers who maintained the delicate balance between
mystification and popularization in the art of royal
representation-notably Henry VIII and Elizabeth I-enjoyed the
longest reigns and often the widest support. But by the end of the
sixteenth century, the perception of royalty shifted, becoming less
sacred and more familiar and leaving Stuart successors to the crown
to deal with a difficult legacy.
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