Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles IIThe calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word.Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped brin. |
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... College — Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power , one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship ...
... College — Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power , one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship ...
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... College , Berea College , Centre College of Kentucky , Eastern Kentucky University , The Filson Club , Georgetown College , Kentucky Historical Society , Kentucky State University , Morehead State University , Murray State University ...
... College , Berea College , Centre College of Kentucky , Eastern Kentucky University , The Filson Club , Georgetown College , Kentucky Historical Society , Kentucky State University , Morehead State University , Murray State University ...
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... of Printing 131 5. " The very Oracles of the Vulgar " : Stephen College and the Author on Trial 172 Conclusion 209 Notes 214 Bibliography 260 Index 284 Illustrations " The Loyal Subjects hearty Wishes To King Charles Contents.
... of Printing 131 5. " The very Oracles of the Vulgar " : Stephen College and the Author on Trial 172 Conclusion 209 Notes 214 Bibliography 260 Index 284 Illustrations " The Loyal Subjects hearty Wishes To King Charles Contents.
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... Healing ( 1684 ) 62 Frontispiece to Richard Atkyns's The Original and Growth of Printing ( 1664 ) 149 Stephen College's " A Ra - ree Show " ( 1681 ) 192 Acknowledgments It is a great pleasure to thank Elizabeth A. List of Illustrations.
... Healing ( 1684 ) 62 Frontispiece to Richard Atkyns's The Original and Growth of Printing ( 1664 ) 149 Stephen College's " A Ra - ree Show " ( 1681 ) 192 Acknowledgments It is a great pleasure to thank Elizabeth A. List of Illustrations.
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... College , " the Protestant Joiner . " Provocateur , inventor of the " Protestant flail , " and Whig propagandist , College may also lay claim to being the first modern political cartoonist . 58 During the Popish Plot and Exclusion ...
... College , " the Protestant Joiner . " Provocateur , inventor of the " Protestant flail , " and Whig propagandist , College may also lay claim to being the first modern political cartoonist . 58 During the Popish Plot and Exclusion ...
Contents
Restoration and Escape The Incognito King and Providential History | 25 |
The Monarchs Sacred Body The Kings Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing | 50 |
The Monarchs Profane Body His scepter and his prick are of a length | 88 |
The feminine part of every rebellion The Public Royal Power and the Mysteries of Printing | 131 |
The very Oracles of the Vulgar Stephen College and the Author on Trial | 172 |
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