883478889     

9883478887                        

---

The drama of coronation : medieval ceremony in early modern England / Alice Hunt

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

1 Online-Ressource (x, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Hunt, Alice, The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England] / Jeanne H. McCarthy, 2010

978-0-511-48541-1 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-88539-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-18287-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 612092966     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511485411

DA315

394/.4     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Great Britain -- Kings and rulers ; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603 ; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 ; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century ; Coronations -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century

Coronations ; Great Britain ; History ; 16th century ; Monarchy ; Great Britain ; History ; 16th century ; Great Britain ; Kings and rulers ; Great Britain ; Politics and government ; 1485-1603 ; Great Britain ; History ; Tudors, 1485-1603

The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch's reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559. It considers how the sacred rite and its related ceremonies and pageants responded to monarchical and religious change, and charts how they were interpreted by contemporary observers. Hunt challenges the popular position that has conflated royal ceremony with political propaganda and argues for a deeper understanding of the symbolic complexity of ceremony. At the heart of the study is an investigation into the vexed issues of legitimacy and representation which leads Hunt to identify the emergence of an important and fruitful exchange between ceremony and drama. This exchange will have significant implications for our understanding both of the period's theatre and of the cultural effects of the Protestant Reformation

---

Why crown a king? Henry VIII and the medieval coronation -- 'Come my love thou shalbe crowned': the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation -- 'But a ceremony': Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan -- 'He hath sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene': England's first queen and Respublica -- 'A stage wherein was shewed the wonderfull spectacle': representing Elizabeth I's coronation