Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England

by Kevin Sharpe

Book Overview

The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first century politics. In this book, a leading historian reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves to their people through the media of building, print, art, material culture and speech. Deploying what we might now describe as 'spin', Tudor rulers worked actively as patrons and popularisers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300236786
• ISBN13: 9780300236781
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"