Often it was family members calling for arrest over fears of succession.
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Poets once wrote their verse in “blood” or “wounds” when a king or queen died. On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, what has happened to the epic art of elegy?
Puritans were often depicted as fools until they had a shot at government, and then the humour got darker.
The polarisation of today’s political discourse has echoes of the intolerance that characterised the Puritan era and the French Revolution.
Impeachment was a common political tool in early modern England, but its use lapsed 20 years after it was adopted in the US constitution.
When the founders wrote the Constitution, they had to devise a punishment fitting for a civil servant’s impeachment. One possible punishment: banishment from the community.
John Major was right – it didn’t end well for the 17th-century king, who ignored parliament and lost his head.
Charles I’s belief that art was a way of projecting power bankrupted England and alienated his people. The rest is history.
He strapped on a sword aged 43 – and changed British history.
Royal PR in pictures started with the Stuarts 400 years ago.
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PhD Candidate in Early Modern Art and Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Head of English, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter
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