Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1987 - 322 pages In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
NOTES | 9 |
Cults of Monarchy and The Wars of Religion | 13 |
THE STUARTS AND THE ELIZABETHAN LEGEND | 15 |
THE JACOBEAN PEACE AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS | 23 |
ELIZABETHAN SURVIVALS AND REVIVALS | 29 |
THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS WAR | 31 |
NOTES | 42 |
THE ARTIST AS MORALIST | 159 |
THE NEW VISUAL CULTURE AND IMAGES OF AUTHORITY | 171 |
NOTES | 177 |
CHARLES I AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF A COURT CULTURE | 183 |
THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN CULTURES | 185 |
VALUES IDEALS AND MODES OF THOUGHT AND FEELING | 191 |
CONCLUSION | 206 |
NOTES | 209 |
The Formation of a New Court Culture | 51 |
THE COURT AND LONDON AS A CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT | 53 |
PATRONS AND AUDIENCES | 58 |
THE COURT THE CITY AND THE PROVINCES | 64 |
NOTES | 67 |
CLASSICAL CULTURE AND MORAL REFORM | 73 |
THE DECLINE OF ELIZABETHAN CONCEPTS OF COURT VIRTUE | 82 |
EARLY STUART CLASSICISM | 84 |
CLASSICAL CULTURE AND THE QUEST FOR MORAL ORDER | 106 |
NOTES | 108 |
THE DISCOVERY OF EUROPEAN ART COLLECTING AND PATRONAGE | 117 |
THE GREAT ARISTOCRATIC COLLECTIONS | 118 |
THE COLLECTING AND PATRONAGE OF CHARLES I | 120 |
THE COST AND CHARACTER OF ROYAL PATRON AGE | 131 |
NOTES | 133 |
THE DISCOVERY OF EUROPEAN ART AESTHETICS AND IDEAS | 139 |
THE ARTIST AS CRAFTSMAN | 140 |
Court Culture Religion and Politics in the 1630s | 215 |
RELIGION | 217 |
ECCLESIASTICAL CONTROVERSIES AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE | 218 |
THE RELIGION OF MONARCHY | 230 |
DIVERGING RELIGIOUS CULTURES | 238 |
NOTES | 239 |
THE HALCYON REIGN | 245 |
THE CULT OF PEACE AND ITS POLITICAL CONTEXT | 247 |
PLATONIC POLITICS? | 253 |
MYTHOLOGY AND POLITICS | 272 |
NOTES | 276 |
EPILOGUE COURT CULTURE AND THE FORMATION OF A ROYALIST TRADITION | 285 |
NOTES | 292 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 293 |
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