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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... to claim his throne . The Restoration generated a quantity of publication , a sheer mass of print , equaled by only two or three other events during the seventeenth century : the Civil War , Exclusion Crisis , 4 Introduction.
... to claim his throne . The Restoration generated a quantity of publication , a sheer mass of print , equaled by only two or three other events during the seventeenth century : the Civil War , Exclusion Crisis , 4 Introduction.
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... seventeenth century was not simply played out against a backdrop of changes in the production , marketing , and consumption of printed matter , but was itself part of these very changes . My book takes its shape from these two related ...
... seventeenth century was not simply played out against a backdrop of changes in the production , marketing , and consumption of printed matter , but was itself part of these very changes . My book takes its shape from these two related ...
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... 17 Provi- dential history , of course , did not lose its explanatory power all at once during the seventeenth century , but it became only one among compet- ing historical models . Richard Ollard , in fact , in his study of the two ...
... 17 Provi- dential history , of course , did not lose its explanatory power all at once during the seventeenth century , but it became only one among compet- ing historical models . Richard Ollard , in fact , in his study of the two ...
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... seventeenth century : while women " were almost universally unable to write their own names " during the six- teenth and early seventeenth centuries , 22 percent could sign in the 1670s , 36 percent in the 1680s , and 48 percent during ...
... seventeenth century : while women " were almost universally unable to write their own names " during the six- teenth and early seventeenth centuries , 22 percent could sign in the 1670s , 36 percent in the 1680s , and 48 percent during ...
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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