Image Wars
Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660
Published on 15. June 2010
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-300-16200-4 (ISBN)
Description
Spin and photo opportunities may appear to have emerged onto the political scene only recently, but in fact image and its manipulation have always been vital to the authority of rulers. This book, the second in Kevin Sharpe's trilogy exploring image, power, and communication in early modern England, examines its importance during the turbulent seventeenth century. From the coronation of James I to the end of Cromwell's protectorate, Sharpe considers how royalists and parliamentarians-often using the same vocabularies-sought to manage their public image through words, pictures, and performances in order to win support and secure and enhance their authority.
Reviews / Votes
"Image Wars . . . is likely to be a significant part of the conversation about early-modern English politics for some time to come."-Seventeenth Century News * Seventeenth Century News * "Sharpe has produced one of the most ambitious cross-disciplinary studies of politics and visual culture in the period."-Studies in English Literature * Studies in English Literature * "The book is learned and inventive, lucidly argued and exhaustively documented, definitive in places, and helpfully speculative in others. . . . It is a volume to be pondered over, argued with, and enthusiastically welcomed."-Alastair Bellany, Journal of British Studies -- Alastair Bellany * Journal of British Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
90 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-16200-4 (9780300162004)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2010
1st Edition
Yale University Press
€97.19
Available for download
Person
Kevin Sharpe is director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Personal Rule of Charles I, Reading Revolutions, and Selling the Tudor Monarchy. He lives in Warwickshire, England.