Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe

Francis So is chair professor of English at Kaohsiung Medical University. He has taught and served as administrator at National Sun Yat-sen University and Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages. He has published works on medieval and Renaissance English literature, Chinese-Western comparative literature and cultural contacts along the Silk Road.

Introduction.- “Live like a King”—Monument of Philopappus and the Continuity of Client-King.- Dreams of Kings in the Liber Thesauri Occulti of Pascalis Romanus.- The Jewel for the Crown: Reconsidering Female Kingship and Queenship in the Galfridian Historiography.- King Arthur: Leadership Masculinity and Homosocial Manhood.- Innocent and Simple: The Making of Henry VI’s Kingship in Fifteenth Century England.- Mending People’s Broken Hearts: the Fashioning of Rulership in John Ford’s The Broken Heart.- Henrietta Maria as a Mediatrix of French Court Culture: A Reconsideration of the Decorations in the Queen’s House.- Royalty and Divinity in Katherine Philips’s Poems.- Private and Public: Rulers, Kings and Tyrants in Plato, Aristotle, John of Salisbury, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.- Tobias Smollett’s Literary Redefinition of Kingship for the Eighteenth Century.