Imaging Stuart Family Politics: Dynastic Crisis and Continuity

ISBN-13: 9780367668242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Catriona Murray

Opis

Using the image of the royal child in texts, images and public celebrations, Catriona Murray explores the promotion of Stuart familial propaganda. Bringing together royal ritual, court portraiture and popular prints, she offers a distinctive perspective on this dimension of seventeenth-century political culture, exploring the fashioning and dismant

Spis treści

Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Genealogical Table of the Royal House of Stuart

Introduction

1 ‘Happy issue’: Births, baptisms and babes-in-arms

2 A nation’s sons: Promoting the royal youth

3 ‘Joy turned to mourning’: Princely deaths, private loss and public grief

4 A troubled inheritance: Re-negotiating familial imagery

5 ‘Royal youth’s last legacy’: Enduring memories and evolving afterlives

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Catriona Murray is a lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh.