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Book Kingship and Propaganda

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  • Author : Suzanne F. Cawsey
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2002-07-04
  • ISBN : 0191554790
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Kingship and Propaganda written by Suzanne F. Cawsey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Crown of Aragon was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit with an original form of representative government. Throughout this period a series of energetic and talented rulers sought to maintain royal authority and govern their realms effectively. Their persuasive rhetoric, and that of their advisers, is preserved in the archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona, which provide a rich and under-exploited vein of source material for historians. There are long letters to their subjects, historical works, and the proceedings of the cortes, where the kings and queens perusaded their reluctant subjects to grant taxes and to support their decisions. Suzanne F. Cawsey examines the tradition of royal eloquence, thereby illuminating the nature of political discourse and persuasion in medieval Aragon and exploring the key ideas shared by the king and the political classes of the kingdom.

Book Kingship and Propaganda

Download or read book Kingship and Propaganda written by Suzanne Frances Cawsey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Printed Propaganda under Louis XIV

Download or read book Printed Propaganda under Louis XIV written by Joseph Klaits and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word. This book considers the purposes, mechanisms, content, and audience of royal printed propaganda in early modern France. The author first sketches the impact of the invention of printing and characterizes propaganda generally during the reign of Louis XIV. In succeeding chapters he discusses the theory and practice of censorship and the government's relationships with the recently established French periodical press, presenting a balanced portrait of the crown's objectives and mixed success in influencing the sources of opinion. The varieties of government-inspired pamphlet propaganda are carefully and extensively analyzed, and signed royal propaganda receives special attention. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Protest or Propaganda

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  • Author : Aarnoud R van der Deijl
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-08-31
  • ISBN : 9047443411
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Protest or Propaganda written by Aarnoud R van der Deijl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of Kings are compared to ten extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the respective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither typically Israelite, as Gerhardt von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the reading experience of biblical war stories is so very different from, for instance, Assyrian royal inscriptions, both in terms of its literary value and its ideological bias. Narratological analysis turns out to be a strong tool for explaining the similarities and distinctive features of the respective texts.

Book Imagination of a Monarchy

Download or read book Imagination of a Monarchy written by R. A. Hazzard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC, but the details of this change have proven problematic. This book presents a clear argument based on the author's theories.

Book Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in the Early Hellenistic Age

Download or read book Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in the Early Hellenistic Age written by Robert A. Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Propaganda and the Tudor State

Download or read book Propaganda and the Tudor State written by John P. D. Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh understanding of the substance behind the rhetoric of English Renaissance monarchy. Propaganda is identified as a key factor in the intensification of the English state. The Tudor royal image is pursued in all its forms: in print and prayer, in iconography andarchitecture. The monarchy surrounded itself with the trappings of majesty at court, but in the shires it relied on different strategies of persuasion to uphold its authority. The Reformation placed the provincial pulpit at the disposal of the crown, and the church became the main conduit of royalpropaganda. Sermons taught the duty of obedience, and parish prayer was redirected from local saints towards the sovereign as the symbolic core of the nation.Dr Cooper examines the relationship between the Tudor monarchy and its subjects in Cornwall and Devon, and the complex interaction between local and national political culture. These were years of social and religious upheaval, during which the western peninsula witnessed three major rebellions,and many more riots and affrays. A vibrant popular religion was devastated by the Protestant Reformation, and foreign invasion was a frequent threat. Cornwall remained recognizably different from England in its ancient language and traditions. Yet in the midst of all this, popular allegiance tomonarchy and nation survived and prospered. The Tudors were mourned and celebrated in towns and parish churches. Loyalty was fostered by the Duchy of Cornwall and the stannaries. Regional difference, far from undermining the power of the crown, was fundamental to its success in the westcountry.This is a study of government at the dangerous edges of Tudor England, and a testament to the unifying power of propaganda.

Book Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in the Early Helenistic Age

Download or read book Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in the Early Helenistic Age written by Robert Arthur Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legitimizing the Queen

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  • Author : Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1611480183
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Legitimizing the Queen written by Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince). Its importance as an object of study may be understood in light of the political instability that wracked the Castilian fifteenth century. The many works written for and dedicated to Isabel I of Castile depict her kingdom as a shipwrecked boat, a wayward realm, and a land of bankrupt people. These works suggest the kingdom's need for redemption through the strong leadership of theCatholic monarchs. These largely propagandistic works were designed to garner power, and once maintained, further Isabel's agenda. This book frames the concept of sovereignty from the theoretical perspective of the speculum principum dedicated to her. It offers a Bourdieuian approach to the more literary specula texts used to legitimize and uphold Isabel's power. This book reveals propagandistic qualities promoting the ideology necessary to legitimize and support Isabel's claims to the throne. Written primarily between 1468 and 1493, these works are literary artifacts that mark the rise to power of a female sovereign. The study discusses the various strategies of legitimation employed by these propagandists whose works circulated within noble androyal courts, and presumably extended into Castile as justification for her sovereign claim to the throne. By analyzing fifteenth century texts from within a modern critical framework, this book reexamines Isabel's position as queen and contributes to the understanding of her shared sovereignty in a period political and social evolution.

Book Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in Theearly Helenistic Age  323 280 B B

Download or read book Deified Kingship and Propaganda Coinage in Theearly Helenistic Age 323 280 B B written by Robert Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deified kingship and propaganda coinage in the early hellenistic age

Download or read book Deified kingship and propaganda coinage in the early hellenistic age written by Robert A. Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reason of State  Propaganda  and the Thirty Years  War

Download or read book Reason of State Propaganda and the Thirty Years War written by Senior Research Fellow Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".

Book Alexander the Great and Propaganda

Download or read book Alexander the Great and Propaganda written by John Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography – in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those of his Successors, demonstrating that it was as integral to Hellenistic courts as it was to Imperial Rome. This volume brings together ten essays from leading international scholars in Alexander studies. There is currently no equivalent collection which has a specialist focus of themes or issues relating to the use of propaganda in the courts of Alexander or his Successors. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Alexander studies, as well as those studying the use of propaganda across the ancient world, and to the more general reader with an interest in Alexander the Great and his reign.

Book Queen as King

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  • Author : Therese Martin
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2006-10-31
  • ISBN : 9047418514
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Queen as King written by Therese Martin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the history of San Isidoro in León from a small eleventh-century palatine chapel housed in a double monastery to a great twelfth-century pilgrimage church. Its most groundbreaking contribution to the history of art is the recovery of the lost patronage of Queen Urraca (reigned 1109-1126).

Book Perceptions of a Monarchy Without a King

Download or read book Perceptions of a Monarchy Without a King written by Benjamin Woodford and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.

Book The Mythology of Kingship in Neo Assyrian Art

Download or read book The Mythology of Kingship in Neo Assyrian Art written by Mehmet-Ali Ataç and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç argues that the palace reliefs of the Neo-Assyrian Empire hold a meaning deeper than simple imperial propaganda.