Tudor Political Culture

An original collection of essays on the ideas, images, and rituals of Tudor political society.

Dale Hoak (Edited by)

9780521520140, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 June 2002

352 pages, 62 b/w illus.
23.6 x 19.1 x 2.3 cm, 1.099 kg

"This book is an important collection of 12 interdisciplinary essays, which freshly assess Tudor mentality and, in particular, Tudor political culture." Wolfgang, Riehle, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

This book consists of twelve interdisciplinary essays on the ideas, images, and rituals of Tudor and early Stuart society. Through the exploitation of new manuscript material, or hitherto untapped artistic sources, the authors open up new perspectives on the ideas, institutions, and rituals of political society. The evidence of art and literature, and new techniques for the discovery of lost mentalities, are used to explore key aspects of Tudor political culture, 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 historic break with Rome to suggest the seamless links between politics and political culture by presenting it 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.

Foreword Sir GEOFFREY ELTON
Introduction DALE HOAK
1. On the road to 1534 THOMAS F. MAYER
2. Family and kinship relations at the Henrician court: the Boleyns and the Howards RETHA M. WARNICKE
3. The iconography of the crown imperial DALE HOAK
4. The royal image JOHN N. KING
5. Political culture and the built environment of the English country town, c. 1540–1620 ROBERT TITTLER
6. Court into country, country into court WILLIAM 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.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1]