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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... revolution . Richard McCoy shows that , amid these sometimes cataclysmic Alterations of State , writers like John Skelton , Shakespeare , John Milton , and Andrew Marvell grappled with the idea of kingship and its symbolic and ...
... Revolution serious- ly damaged more traditional ideas of sacred kingship and inaugurat- ed a new era of constitutional monarchy . As this brief summary indicates , conflicts over the English monar- chy grew more tumultuous throughout ...
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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 |