@article{437090,
      recid = {437090},
      author = {Sharpe, Kevin},
      title = {Selling the Tudor monarchy : authority and image in  sixteenth-century England /},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven :},
      pages = {xxix, 588 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {"The management of image in the service of power is a  familiar tool of twenty-first century politics. Here a  leading historian reveals how, from even before the  Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their  authority by representing themselves to their people  through the media of building, print, art, material culture  and speech. Deploying what we might now describe as 'spin',  Tudor rulers worked actively as patrons and popularisers to  present themselves to the best advantage. Familiarity,  however, brought risk. The art of royal representation was  a delicate balance between mystification and popularisation  ... Yet relentless promotion of the royal image had  desacralised it, leaving a difficult legacy for their  Stuart successors. This first sustained analysis of the  verbal and visual representations of Tudor power embraces  art history, literary studies and the history of  consumption and material culture ..."--Book jacket flap.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437090},
}