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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... nation : this hapning when to expect or effect it , was past all humane policy.3 .. Pepys's diary entry for that day attests to the vertiginous nervous excitement of this unlooked - for and , to Charles's supporters , miraculous ...
... nation : this hapning when to expect or effect it , was past all humane policy.3 .. Pepys's diary entry for that day attests to the vertiginous nervous excitement of this unlooked - for and , to Charles's supporters , miraculous ...
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... nation , a popular political culture formed by a concerned and active citizenry of an unprecedented size and awareness.29 English monarchs , of course , had always regarded matters of state as part of their personal prerogative ; the ...
... nation , a popular political culture formed by a concerned and active citizenry of an unprecedented size and awareness.29 English monarchs , of course , had always regarded matters of state as part of their personal prerogative ; the ...
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... nation during its mid - century upheavals , and created new conflicts as well . Venner's rebellion of January 1661 and the mass arrests and widespread searches that aborted a Yorkshire rising in October 1663 are only the most obvious ...
... nation during its mid - century upheavals , and created new conflicts as well . Venner's rebellion of January 1661 and the mass arrests and widespread searches that aborted a Yorkshire rising in October 1663 are only the most obvious ...
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... nation that must defend itself by treating Charles II as an image of Charles I : " Like Father , Like Son . " 5' At the same time College succeeds in drawing Charles as a figure of burlesque , a lecherous , religious hypocrite who ...
... nation that must defend itself by treating Charles II as an image of Charles I : " Like Father , Like Son . " 5' At the same time College succeeds in drawing Charles as a figure of burlesque , a lecherous , religious hypocrite who ...
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... nation of readers to try governing themselves without a king . Print had , at least for a moment , made readers kings indeed . " 61 That " moment , " Charles II"s bitter patrimony , irrevocably shaped his kingship , fixing it within the ...
... nation of readers to try governing themselves without a king . Print had , at least for a moment , made readers kings indeed . " 61 That " moment , " Charles II"s bitter patrimony , irrevocably shaped his kingship , fixing it within the ...
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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