Présentation de l'éditeur
The King's Bedpost is a lavishly-illustrated detective story about a painting. Edward VI and the Pope is an important and fascinating visual allegory of the Reformation; but when and why was it painted? Following up a sequence of clues to answer these questions, the author embarks on a fascinating and unusual voyage of historical exploration that takes the reader into book illustration and scriptural iconography, Tudor religion and politics, anti-papal propaganda and iconoclastic manoeuvres. The discovery of previously unrecognised pictorial sources conclusively re-dates the painting, and opens a wide-ranging discussion of art and image-making under Edward VI and Elizabeth I. A large and varied cast of characters joins the Tudor monarchs as the tale unfolds and the painting ultimately becomes the key to a series of hitherto locked doors.
Revue de presse
'… both a first rate piece of historical detection - quite as absorbing as any detective novel - and a splendid example of the part iconography can play in solving historical problems'. History Today
' … brilliant and convincing … The learning which underpins Dr Aston's carefully-written, well-illustrated and entirely accessible book is truly prodigious.' Sir Keith Thomas, The Guardian
'Margaret Aston claims no more for her book than a hypothesis or 'a walk around the painting', but it is much more … She opens new insights into politics, religion and polemics in 16th century England and Europe …' Kevin Sharpe, The Spectator
