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This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559: those of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. It considers how the sacred rite and its related ceremonies and pageants responded to monarchical and religious change and charts how they were interpreted by contemporary observers. Hunt challenges the popular position that has conflated royal ceremony with political propaganda and argues for a deeper understanding of the symbolic complexity of ceremony. At the heart of the study is an investigation into the vexed issues of legitimacy and representation which leads Hunt to identify the emergence of an important and fruitful exchange between ceremony and drama. This exchange will have significant implications for our understanding both of the period’s theatre and of the cultural effects of the Reformation. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of late medieval and early modern history and literature.  \nALICE HUNT is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton.  \nTHE DRAMA OF  \nCORONATION Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England  \nALICE HUNT  \nUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nCambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo  \nCambridge University Press  \nThe Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK  \nPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York  \n[www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org)  \nInformation on this [title: www.cambridge.org/9780521885393](title: www.cambridge.org/9780521885393)  \n© Alice Hunt 2008  \nThis publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published in print format  \nISBN-13 978-0-511-43697-0 ISBN-13 978-0-521-88539-3  \n2008  \neBook (EBL) hardback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.  \nContents  \nPreface page vi Note on style and dates viii  \nList of abbreviations ix  \nIntroduction: the ‘idol’ ceremony of coronation 1  \n1 Why crown a king? Henry VIII and the medieval coronation 12  \n2 ‘Come my love thou shalbe crowned’: the drama of  \nAnne Boleyn’s coronation 39  \n3 ‘But a ceremony’: Edward VI’s reformed coronation and John Bale’s King Johan 77  \n4 ‘He hath sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene’: England’s first queen and Respublica 111  \n5 ‘A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle’:  \nrepresenting Elizabeth I’s coronation 146  \nEpilogue: ‘Presume not that I am the thing I was’ 173  \nNotes 178  \nBibliography 218  \nIndex 236  \nPreface  \nThe image on the jacket of this book is known as ‘The ‘‘Coronation’’Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I’. It marks this book’s starting point: Elizabeth I and her contested coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey on 15 January 1559. The portrait is remarkable for being the only formal coronation portrait of any Tudor monarch to survive. It was painted by an unknown artist in about 1600, and is either a copy of an earlier coronation portrait or was commissioned at the end of Elizabeth’s reign. In either case, this painting chooses to remember Elizabeth as the young, newly anointed queen she once was and recalls a ritual of transformation. The survival of ceremony in Reformation England is the subject of this book. Moving backwards from Elizabeth, it examines the coronation ceremonies of four of her predecessors. Since there are very few visual records of Tudor coronations, the book considers how these rites have been described an","cbCaidXDtXwGH17i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidXDtXwGH17i","pdf",1236479,254,"English","# Preface\n# Note on style and dates\n# List of abbreviations\n# Introduction: the ‘idol’ ceremony of coronation\n# 1 Why crown a king? Henry VIII and the medieval coronation\n# 2 ‘Come my love thou shalbe crowned’: the drama of Anne Boleyn’s coronation\n# 3 ‘But a ceremony’: Edward VI’s reformed coronation and John Bale’s King Johan\n# 4 ‘He hath sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene’: England’s first queen and Respublica\n# 5 ‘A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle’: representing Elizabeth I’s coronation\n# Epilogue: ‘Presume not that I am the thing I was’\n# Notes\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"Which coronations does the book study?\",\"answer\":\"It examines five coronations in England between 1509 and 1559: those of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.\"},{\"question\":\"What central argument does Alice Hunt make about royal ceremony?\",\"answer\":\"The study challenges the tendency to conflate royal ceremony with political propaganda and instead argues for a deeper understanding of ceremony’s symbolic complexity and its relationship to drama.\"},{\"question\":\"What issues does the book focus on at the heart of its investigation?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates contested questions of legitimacy and representation, showing how ceremony and drama develop an important and productive exchange.\"}]","THE DRAMA OF CORONATION - Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England | PDF",1789987121,391]