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- Title
Images of Kingship: Charles I, Accession Sermons, and the Theory of Divine Right.
- Authors
Kiryanova, Elena
- Abstract
Accession day was an important feast in the emerging political calendar of early modern Britain. 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 Charles I's Personal Rule and the Civil Wars. I examine the development of the royal image from the godlike intercessor between God 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 Westminster. 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.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ASCENSION Day sermons; CHARLES I, King of England, 1600-1649; ENGLISH sermons; CHURCH &; state; KINGS &; rulers &; religion; FESTIVAL-day sermons; BRITISH Civil War, 1642-1649; STUART Period, Great Britain, 1603-1714; CHRISTIANITY; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
History, 2015, Vol 100, Issue 339, p21
- ISSN
0018-2648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-229X.12093