05355nam 2200829 450 991045504670332120200520144314.00-231-50107-210.7312/mcco12616(CKB)111056485391316(MH)008940065-8(SSID)ssj0000101552(PQKBManifestationID)11998832(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101552(PQKBWorkID)10042231(PQKB)11744512(MiAaPQ)EBC5275834(DE-B1597)459112(OCoLC)51566945(OCoLC)979953746(DE-B1597)9780231501071(Au-PeEL)EBL5275834(CaPaEBR)ebr11529431(EXLCZ)9911105648539131620180403h20022002 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAlterations of state sacred kingship in the English Reformation /Richard C. McCoyNew York :Columbia University Press,2002.©20021 online resource (xxiv, 218 p. )ill. ;Includes index.0-231-12616-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- 1. Real Presence to Royal Presence -- 2. Sacred Space: John Skelton and Westminster's Royal Sepulcher -- 3. Rites of Memory: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Compromise -- 4. Idolizing Kings: John Milton and Stuart Rule -- 5. Sacramental to Sentimental: Andrew Marvell and the Restoration -- Notes -- IndexTraditional notions of sacred kingship became both more grandiose and more problematic during England's turbulent sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation launched by Henry VIII and his claims for royal supremacy and divine right rule led to the suppression of the Mass, as the host and crucifix were overshadowed by royal iconography and pageantry. These changes began a religious controversy in England that would lead to civil war, regicide, restoration, and ultimately revolution. Richard McCoy shows that, amid these sometimes cataclysmic Alterations of State, writers like John Skelton, Shakespeare, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell grappled with the idea of kingship and its symbolic and substantive power. Their artistic representations of the crown reveal the passion and ambivalence with which the English viewed their royal leaders. While these writers differed on the fundamental questions of the day-Skelton was a staunch defender of the English monarchy and traditional religion, Milton was a radical opponent of both, and Shakespeare and Marvell were more equivocal-they shared an abiding fascination with the royal presence or, sometimes more tellingly, the royal absence. Ranging from regicides real and imagined-with the very real specter of the slain King Charles I haunting the country like a revenant of the king's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet-from the royal sepulcher at Westminster Abbey to Peter Paul Reubens's Apotheosis of King James at Whitehall, and from the Elizabethan compromise to the Glorious Revolution, McCoy plumbs the depths of English attitudes toward the king, the state, and the very idea of holiness. He reveals how older notions of sacred kingship expanded during the political and religious crises that transformed the English nation, and helps us understand why the conflicting emotions engendered by this expansion have proven so persistent.Kings and rulersReligious aspectsChristianityEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismKings and rulers in literatureChristianity and literatureGreat BritainHistory16th centuryChristianity and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory16th centuryPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryMonarchy in literatureHoly, The, in literatureState, The, in literatureChurch and state in literatureElectronic books.Kings and rulersReligious aspectsChristianity.English literatureHistory and criticism.Kings and rulers in literature.Christianity and literatureHistoryChristianity and literatureHistoryPolitics and literatureHistoryPolitics and literatureHistoryMonarchy in literature.Holy, The, in literature.State, The, in literature.Church and state in literature.820.9352351McCoy Richard C.1946-1034927MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455046703321Alterations of state2454339UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress