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Beyond Personality and Pomp: Recent Works on Early Modern Monarchies - Bourbon and Stuart: Kings and Kingship in France and England in the Seventeenth Century. By John Miller. New York: Franklin Watts, 1987. Pp. 272. - Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England. By R. Malcolm Smuts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 322. - Ceremonies of Charles I: The Note Books of John Finet, Master of Ceremonies, 1628–1641. Edited by Albert J. Loomie, J. S. New York: Fordham University Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 330. - Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies. Edited by David Cannadine and Simon Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xi + 351. - The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France: Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse. By Sarah Hanley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 388.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Cynthia Herrup*
Affiliation:
Duke University

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1 Kantorowicz, Ernst H., The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton, N.J., 1957)Google Scholar.

2 Some recent work suggests this may be changing; see, e.g., Richards, Judith, “‘His Nowe Majestie’ and the English Monarchy: The Kingship of Charles I before 1640,” Past and Present, no. 113 (November 1986), pp. 7096Google Scholar; Sharpe, Kevin, “The Personal Rule of Charles I,” in Before the English Civil War, ed. Tomlinson, Howard (London, 1983), pp. 5378CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Starkey, David, “Court History in Perspective,” in The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War, ed. Starkey, David (London, 1987), pp. 125Google Scholar.