Robert Tittler has researched, taught, and published for over forty years, producing ten books and some fifty scholarly articles and essays on the urban, political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Tudor and early Stuart eras. He prefers to work at the edges of his subjects rather in their centres, hoping to knit those subjects together with the edges of adjacent issues. His studies of town halls and political authority (Architecture and Power, 1991), of the impact of the Reformation on urban political life (The Reformation and the Towns, 1998), the experiences of individual urban residents in relation to the whole (Townspeople and Nation, 2001), or of portraiture and civic identity (The Face of the City, 2007), all work towards those ends, as does this present book.

Tittler's thoroughly researched and well-referenced book is both scholarly and readily accessible to anyone interested in the early modern period.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. English Portraiture in Context ; 3. Locating the Public ; 4. Provincial Painters ; 5. Painters' Resources: Material and Cultural ; 6. Heraldry and Portraiture ; 7. The Provincial Vocabulary: 'Props' and their Meaning ; 8. Varieties of Regional Experience ; 9. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Robert Tittler has researched, taught, and published for over forty years, producing ten books and some fifty scholarly articles and essays on the urban, political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Tudor and early Stuart eras. He prefers to work at the edges of his subjects rather in their centres, hoping to knit those subjects together with the edges of adjacent issues. His studies of town halls and political authority (Architecture and Power, 1991), of the impact of the Reformation on urban political life (The Reformation and the Towns, 1998), the experiences of individual urban residents in relation to the whole (Townspeople and Nation, 2001), or of portraiture and civic identity (The Face of the City, 2007), all work towards those ends, as does this present book.

Tittler's thoroughly researched and well-referenced book is both scholarly and readily accessible to anyone interested in the early modern period.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. English Portraiture in Context ; 3. Locating the Public ; 4. Provincial Painters ; 5. Painters' Resources: Material and Cultural ; 6. Heraldry and Portraiture ; 7. The Provincial Vocabulary: 'Props' and their Meaning ; 8. Varieties of Regional Experience ; 9. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Robert Tittler has researched, taught, and published for over forty years, producing ten books and some fifty scholarly articles and essays on the urban, political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Tudor and early Stuart eras. He prefers to work at the edges of his subjects rather in their centres, hoping to knit those subjects together with the edges of adjacent issues. His studies of town halls and political authority (Architecture and Power, 1991), of the impact of the Reformation on urban political life (The Reformation and the Towns, 1998), the experiences of individual urban residents in relation to the whole (Townspeople and Nation, 2001), or of portraiture and civic identity (The Face of the City, 2007), all work towards those ends, as does this present book.

Tittler's thoroughly researched and well-referenced book is both scholarly and readily accessible to anyone interested in the early modern period.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. English Portraiture in Context ; 3. Locating the Public ; 4. Provincial Painters ; 5. Painters' Resources: Material and Cultural ; 6. Heraldry and Portraiture ; 7. The Provincial Vocabulary: 'Props' and their Meaning ; 8. Varieties of Regional Experience ; 9. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index