Alterations of state : sacred kingship in the English Reformation /
During the English reformation, writers like John Skelton, Shakespeare, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell grappled with the idea of kingship and royalty, its real presence and figurative power. McCoy explains why religious devotion to the royal person became both more acute and more problematic during...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2002.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mcco12616 |
| Summary: | During the English reformation, writers like John Skelton, Shakespeare, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell grappled with the idea of kingship and royalty, its real presence and figurative power. McCoy explains why religious devotion to the royal person became both more acute and more problematic during England's turbulent seventeenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231501072 9780231501071 0231126166 9780231126168 |