Royal Voices
Language and Power in Tudor England
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- Author: Mel Evans, University of Leicester
- Date Published: April 2020
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107131217
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The Tudors are one of the best known royal families in English history. Over three generations, they constructed and maintained their status and authority during a period of social, political and religious unrest. This book examines the textual basis of Tudor royal power. Through analyses of correspondence alongside genres including proclamations and historical chronicles, the book explores the visual and verbal practices that came to symbolise monarchic authority in the Tudor era. Mel Evans combines concepts from sociolinguistics and pragmatics with corpus linguistic methods to explore the characteristics of authentic English language Tudor texts, alongside materials reporting and appropriating royal language. The book reveals a pervasive sixteenth-century royal voice - one which is central to the articulation and perpetuation of Tudor monarchic power.
Read more- Provides a large-scale, inter-disciplinary investigation of archival materials relating to the Tudor monarchy
- Applies linguistic concepts more typically used for contemporary sociolinguistics and pragmatics to illuminate and appraise the textual practices of the Tudor monarchy and their subjects
- Develops and applies corpus-based methods to investigate material and linguistic features of manuscript and printed Tudor documents in an accessible way
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107131217
- length: 278 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Authentic Royal Voices:
1. Materiality and power in Tudor royal correspondence
2. Royal epistolary language: trends and trajectories
3. Pragmatic perspectives on royal letters
4. Tudor royal proclamations: materiality, orality and performance
Part II. Appropriated Royal Voices:
5. Non-royal views of royal voices: afterlives and metalanguage
6. Impostor, protector and queen: the textual power of royal pretenders
7. Writing royal voices: royal discourse reports in sixteenth-century correspondence
8. Royal voices, narrative and ideology in sixteenth-century chronicles
Conclusion.
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