Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 16031660 Sharpe, Kevin

About the AuthorKevin Sharpe is director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London He is the author of The Personal Rule of Charles I, Reading Revolutions, and Selling the Tudor Monarchy He lives in Warwickshire, EnglandProduct DescriptionSpin and photo opportunities may appear to have emerged onto the political scene only recently, but in fact image and its manipulation have always been vital to the authority of rulers This book, the second in Kevin Sharpes trilogy exploring image, power, and communication in early modern England, examines its importance during the turbulent seventeenth century From the coronation of James I to the end of Cromwells protectorate, Sharpe considers how royalists and parliamentariansoften using the same vocabulariessought to manage their public image through words, pictures, and performances in order to win support and secure and enhance their authorityReviewImage Wars is likely to be a significant part of the conversation about earlymodern English politics for some time to comeSeventeenth Century News Seventeenth Century NewsSharpe has produced one of the most ambitious crossdisciplinary studies of politics and visual culture in the periodStudies in English Literature Studies in English LiteratureThe book is learned and inventive, lucidly argued and exhaustively documented, definitive in places, and helpfully speculative in others It is a volume to be pondered over, argued with, and enthusiastically welcomedAlastair Bellany, Journal of British Studies Alastair Bellany Journal of British Studies ISBN10: 0300162006 ISBN13: 9780300162004Material Type: hardcover