Images of Kingship
C harles I , Accession Sermons, and the Theory of Divine Right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9877642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Kiryanova (independent scholar), E V Kiryanova (Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 339 |
| Pages | 21-39 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-229x.12093 |
| OpenAlex | W1921665812 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Accession day was an important feast in the emerging political calendar of early modern B ritain. Some of the sermons were published and contributed to shaping the royal image. Since a sermon was one of the few traditionally acceptable ways to criticize a monarch and to steer him or her onto the right path, a preacher could stress the ideal traits of the royal image while condemning the negative ones. I analyse this kind of sermon in the period of C harles I 's P ersonal R ule and the C ivil W ars. I examine the development of the royal image from the godlike intercessor between G od and the people, to the ‘toiler’ doing his best to achieve peace, and the martyr (even before his captivity and execution), and to the democratized version of the previous ‘majestic’ image applied to ‘the magistrates’ in W estminster. This material helps us understand better the theological and political ideal of a ruler, in the years of one of the major crises of the British political system
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The Idea of Absolutism
The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642
Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558–1642
Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England
Anti-Calvinists
Sermons at Court
Thomas Fuller, Peter Heylyn and the English Reformation
Textual sacraments
God save the King
William Laud and the Exercise of Caroline Ecclesiastical Patronage
The Divine Right of Kings Reconsidered
Covenanter Propaganda and Conceptualizations of the Public During the Bishops' Wars, 1638–1640
James I and the Divine Right of Kings
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |