Alice Hunt

The Drama of Coronation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the impact of the Reformation on the period's coronation ceremonies, and examines how they were described by contemporary observers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780521885393
• ISBN-10: 0521885396
• Artikelnr.: 25529041

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The 'idol' ceremony of coronation; 1. Why crown a King?:
Henry VIII and the medieval coronation; 2. 'Come my love thou shalbe
crowned': the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation; 3. 'But a ceremony':
Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan; 4. 'He hath
sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene': England's first Queen and Respublica;
5. 'A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle': representing
Elizabeth I's coronation; Epilogue: 'Presume not that I am the thing I
was'.