Royal voices : language and power in Tudor England / Mel Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Mel, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--History.

English language.

Speech and social status--England--History--16th century.

Speech and social status.

Speech and social status--England--History--17th century.

English language--Written English--Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

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

Works Cited.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-85078-2

1-108-85112-6

1-316-44309-4