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. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth century, British monarchs deployed what we might now describe as "spin." In this book a leading historian reveals how Tudor kings and queens sought to enhance their authority by presenting themselves to best advantage. Kevin Sharpe offers the first full analysis of the verbal and visual representations of Tudor power,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300140983
• ISBN13: 9780300140989
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"