King Henry III and the Communication of Power

Against the backdrop of King John's ignominy and the political challenge posed by Magna Carta, which encouraged demands for greater representation in parliament, King Henry III used art, architecture and apparel to exalt his authority and to communicate his divinely-ordained status on a scale never previously seen in England. This lecture considers how Henry used art to justify monarchy at the dawn of what is commonly termed the 'parliamentary state'. The transcript and downloadable versio...