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A Compleat Catalogue of All the Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets Printed Since the First Discovery of the Popish Plot, (September, 1678) to January 1679/80
Author: A Compleat Catalogue of All the Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets Printed Since the First Discovery of the Popish Plot, September 1678., to January 1679/80. To which is Added a Catalogue of All His Majesties Proclamations, Speeches, and Declarations, with the Orders of the King and Council, and what Acts of Parliament Have Been Published Since the Plot
Author: A Compleat Catalogue of All the Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets Printed Since the First Discovery of the Popish Plot, (September 1678.) to January 1679-1680
Author: A Compleat catalogue of all the stitch'd books and single sheets printed since the first discovery of the popish plot September 1678 to January 1679
Author: A Continuation of the Compleat catalogue of stitch'd books and single sheets, and c. printed since the first discovery of the popish plot, September 1678
Author: A Continuation of the Compleat Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets, &c. Printed Since the First Discovery of the Popish Plot
Author: A Compleat Catalogue of All the Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets Printed Since the First Discovery of the Popish Plot (September 1678) to January 1679/80
Author: A Continuation of the Compleat Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets, Etc
Author: A Continuation of the Compleat Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets, &c. Printed Since the First Discovery of the Popish Plot, September 1678
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Author: Harold M. WeberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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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 bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.