Author

Publication

1996 - Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, England

Language

English

Word Count

53,250 words, Guess

Page Count

213 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1099403M
  • ISBN-101859281397
  • OCLC Control Number31331718
  • Library of Congress Control Number94024166
  • Goodreads2882015
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  • LibraryThing3978856

Classifications

  • DDC820.9/358/09031
  • LCCPR418.P65 W35 1996

Description

This important new study constitutes an attempt to understand the means by which crucial aspects of the political process were conducted in the reign of Henry VIII. To this end, Greg Walker adopts a variety of approaches, from the straightforward historical narrative to an analysis of courtly iconography. He considers a broad range of evidence, from the trial records of a convicted heretic to the murals on palace walls; from the despatches of ambassadors and military commanders to the fictional creations of poets and prose writers. But the study is united by a central concern and purpose, namely to get beyond the orthodoxies of historians and literary scholars to the ways in which contemporaries experienced and expressed their political and religious beliefs and ambitions, and thus to appreciate how that most enigmatic of notions 'political culture' was constituted in the period.

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