Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English ReformationTraditional notions of sacred kingship became both more grandiose and more problematic during England's turbulent sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation launched by Henry VIII and his claims for royal supremacy and divine right rule led to the suppression of the Mass, as the host and crucifix were overshadowed by royal iconography and pageantry. These changes began a religious controversy in England that would lead to civil war, regicide, restoration, and ultimately revolution. |
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... John Skelton , Shakespeare , John Milton , and Andrew Marvell grappled with the idea of kingship and its symbolic and substantive power . Their artistic representa- tions of the crown reveal the passion and ambivalence with which the ...
... John Skelton and Westminster's Royal Sepulcher 23 3. Rites of Memory : Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Compromise 55 4. Idolizing Kings : John Milton and Stuart Rule 87 5. Sacramental to Sentimental : Andrew Marvell and the Restoration ...
... John Bossy calls " a migration of the holy " in which " the social- ly integrative powers of the host " were transferred " to the rituals of monarchy and secular community . " 1 Under the Tudors ... John Milton's horror , the blood X PREFACE.
Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation Richard McCoy. publican rule . To John Milton's horror , the blood shed by Charles I only increased England's tendency toward " a civil kinde of Idolatry in idolizing thir Kings . " 4 The king ...
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Contents
Real Presence to Royal Presence | 1 |
Sacred Space John Skelton and Westminsters Royal Sepulcher | 23 |
Rites of Memory Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Compromise | 55 |
Idolizing Kings John Milton and Stuart Rule | 87 |
Sacramental to Sentimental Andrew Marvell and the Restoration | 123 |
Notes | 157 |
Index | 205 |
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Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation Richard C. McCoy No preview available - 2002 |