Laura Lunger Knoppers. Constructing Cromwell: show Portrait and Print 1645-1661 modern York: Cambridge University Press. 2000 Pp xiii, 249 $5995 ISBN 0-521-66261-3
This is a pioneering reflection of Cromwellian image-making from his early career to the Restoration. It handles a wide range of media, from manuscripts and print to portraiture and other visual material with confidence and point out tos a mastery of each of them. The argument, that the construction of Cromwell's image was completely through deliberate, planned, and meditateed is developed over single chapters onward the period to