At a symbolic level these two stories are indicative of serious difficulties within the kingship.
The focus of the motet is thereby directed even more forcefully towards kingship, good and bad, sanctified and unholy.
Her discussion of the role of queenship in legitimating not only any individual king, but also the kingship itself, is particularly thoughtful.
During his reign he is presented as eager, even a touch desperate for images to shore up his kingship.
Such revisions have begun to redraw our picture of early modern kingship.
Scriptural allegory is deployed as a rhetorical tactic that both articulates the theme of kingship and shapes it.
The ongoing definition of public good encompassed kingship itself.
These rhetorics of kingship may indeed be regarded as a social reality in their own right.
