Paper bullets : print and kingship under Charles II
Harold Weber (Author)
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 brin
eBook, English, 1996
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations
898064769
1. Restoration and Escape: The Incognito King and Providential History
2. The Monarch's Sacred Body: The King's Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing
3. The Monarch's Profane Body: "His scepter and his prick are of a length"
4. "The feminine part of every rebellion": The Public, Royal Power, and the Mysteries of Printing
5. "The very Oracles of the Vulgar": Stephen College and the Author on Trial