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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... the Elizabethan Compromise 55 4. Idolizing Kings : John Milton and Stuart Rule 87 5. Sacramental to Sentimental : Andrew Marvell and the Restoration 123 NOTES 157 INDEX 205 Preface What an Earth - quake is the Alteration of.
... Alteration of a State ! —Thomas Dekker , The Wonderful Year ( 1603 ) Non cat potestas Super Terram qua Comparetur a Job . LEVIATHAN Or THE MATTER , FORME and POWER of A COMMON WEALTH ECCLESIASTICALL and CIVIL By THOMAS HOBBES of ...
... alterations were behind them when he spoke at Hampton Court in 1604 : " in this land , King Henry VIII towards the end of his reign altered much , King Edward VI more , Queen Mary reversed all , and lastly Queen Elizabeth ( of famous ...
... alterations of state threatened to alter the conditions of existence itself , shaking England to its very foundations . These words also suggest the traumatic impact of the death or deposition of a monarch . A far more famous work from ...
... alteration of state or condition , namely transubstantiation . As Ernst Kantorowicz points out in his classic study of The King's Two Bodies , these two doctrines had been linked from their inception by a shared belief in the redemptive ...
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 |