An original collection of essays on the ideas, images, and rituals of Tudor political society.
England was the most centralised state in medieval Europe.
... power of the stage has been a major concern of contemporary scholars. See the groundbreaking study by Stephen Orgel, The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the English Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975); ...
Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England.
This book discusses the tensions in major Renaissance literary texts between the cult of monarchy and its subversions by Christianity.
England was the most centralised state in medieval Europe.
Preliminary Report to President Truman on Displaced Persons in Germany and Austria ' , in Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East : A Documentary Record , 2 vols . , ed . J.C. Hurewitz , New York , 1956 , vol . 2 , pp .
... Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1997), p. 33. 56 See K. Thomas, 'English Protestantism and Classical Art', in L. Gent (ed.), Albion's Classicism: the VisualArts in Britain 1550–1660 (1995), pp.
He commanded Wolsey to petition Pope Clement VII for a decree proclaiming the marriage to Catherine invalid and permitting Henry to remarry. The Pope resisted this on two counts. To begin with, it was he who, at Henry's request, ...
... whose subject appears to be the renewal of a religious building , was the visual inspiration for two images of Henry VIII so ... or conceived by artist and perhaps royal client , as a renewed version of Bramante's ruined temple .