Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles IIThe 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 brin. |
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Contents
Restoration and Escape The Incognito King and Providential History | 25 |
The Monarchs Sacred Body The Kings Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing | 50 |
The Monarchs Profane Body His scepter and his prick are of a length | 88 |
The feminine part of every rebellion The Public Royal Power and the Mysteries of Printing | 131 |
The very Oracles of the Vulgar Stephen College and the Author on Trial | 172 |
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| Title | Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II |
| Author | Harold M. Weber |
| Publisher | University Press of Kentucky, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0813130441, 9780813130446 |
| Length | 292 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Great Britain |
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