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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... Lords doing , et mirabile in oculis nostris : for such a Restauration was never scene in the mention of any history , antient or modern , since the returne of the Babylonian Captivity , nor so joyfull a day , & so bright , ever scene in ...
... Lords doing , et mirabile in oculis nostris : for such a Restauration was never scene in the mention of any history , antient or modern , since the returne of the Babylonian Captivity , nor so joyfull a day , & so bright , ever scene in ...
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... lord protec- tor , as well as Charles II , would all labor with varying degrees of success to " master " the press , but after 1641 such attempts inevitably depended on the press itself ; competing versions of contemporary history " in ...
... lord protec- tor , as well as Charles II , would all labor with varying degrees of success to " master " the press , but after 1641 such attempts inevitably depended on the press itself ; competing versions of contemporary history " in ...
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... Lord Mayor and Aldermen . " 34 And recently Tim Harris , in his study of the London crowd , has argued that ordinary people , " the middling sort " that would include shopkeep- ers , tradesmen , and craftsmen , " had a more important ...
... Lord Mayor and Aldermen . " 34 And recently Tim Harris , in his study of the London crowd , has argued that ordinary people , " the middling sort " that would include shopkeep- ers , tradesmen , and craftsmen , " had a more important ...
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... Lord's barge with the two Dukes ; ... I went , and Mr. Mansell and one of the King's footmen , with a dog that the King loved ( which shit in the boat , which made us laugh and me think that a King and all that belong to him are but ...
... Lord's barge with the two Dukes ; ... I went , and Mr. Mansell and one of the King's footmen , with a dog that the King loved ( which shit in the boat , which made us laugh and me think that a King and all that belong to him are but ...
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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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