Tudor Political Culture

Foreword Sir GEOFFREY ELTON; Introduction DALE HOAK; 1. On the road to 1534 THOMAS F. MAYER; 2. Family and kinship relations at the Henrician court: the Boleyns and the Howards RETHA M. WARNICKE; 3. The iconography of the crown imperial DALE HOAK; 4. The royal image JOHN N. KING; 5. Political culture and the built environment of the English country town, c. 1540-1620 ROBERT TITTLER; 6. Court into country, country into court WILLIAM TIGHE; 7. 'Death be very proud': Sidney, subversion and Elizabethan heraldic funerals J. F. R. dAY; 8. 'O, 'tis a gallant king': Shakespeare's Henry V and the crisis of the 1590s PETER C. HERMAN; 9. Parliament and the political society of Elizabethan England NORMAN JONES; 10. Image and ritual in the Tudor parliaments DAVID DEAN; 11. The countervailing of benefits: monopoly, liberty and benevolence in Elizabethan England DAVID HARRIS SACKS; 12. The rhetoric of counsel in early modern England JOHN GUY.

"Hoak and his colleagues are to be congratulated for their rich contributions to the political historiography of Tudor England." Sixteenth Century Journal "The standard of contributions is high, and the authors score again and again by their reinterpretation of familiar material and their close readings of texts and images...The volume is likely to have the greatest impct at an intermediate level, among students at universities. It would be interesting to put the volume into the hands of a good student and ask him or her to reconstitute the rules of political culture from these twelve essays alone to describe both the system and direction of change." E. Timothy Smith, American Historical Review "Tudor Political Culture is a handsomely illustrated collection of twelve original interdisciplinary essays that illuminate the unwritten codes and mentalities of Tudor England...in presenting new material to widen and change our perception of how power was revealed during that time...They enlarge our understanding of Tudor political culture and thus lead to a better understanding of the age." Robert C. Barddock, Renaissance Quarterly "The work performed by the editor and contributors to Tudor Political Culture is on the right track." Joseph S. Block, Albion "This book is an important collection of 12 interdisciplinary essays, which freshly assess Tudor mentality and, in particular, Tudor political culture." Wolfgang, Riehle, International Journal of the Classical Tradition