Author: Thomas Hartwell Horne
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge). Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Harold M. Weber
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081315667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The 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 bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.

Author: Henry Savile
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Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge) Library
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Myra Reynolds
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: James Wyatt Cook
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office
ISBN: 141816285X
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Wallace Notestein
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Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Helen Charlotte Foxcroft
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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Author: Ellis Sandoz
Publisher: Amagi Books
ISBN: 9780865977099
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Roots of Liberty is a critical collection of essays on the origin and nature of the often elusive idea of the nature of liberty. Throughout this book, the original and thought-provoking views from scholars J C Holt, Christopher W Brooks, Paul Christianson, and John Phillip Reid offer insights into the development of English ideas of liberty and the relationship those ideas hold to modern conceptions of rule of law. Ellis Sandoz's introduction details Fortescue's vision of the constitution and places each of the essays in historiographical context. Corrine C. Weston's spirited epilogue evaluates the essays' arguments.