Open AccessSYMBOLS OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER AS A MEANS OF REPRESENTATION OF THE JAMES VI & I AUTHORITY (based on the illustrative sources of the National Portrait Gallery)
Author(s) -
Illia Levchenko,
U. Kukharuk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vìsnik - kiïvsʹkij nacìonalʹnij unìversitet ìmenì tarasa ševčenka. ìstorìâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1728-2640
DOI - 10.17721/1728-2640.2019.140.8
Subject(s) - knight , portrait , ethos , etiquette , order (exchange) , reign , sword , ideal (ethics) , sociology , law , art , art history , history , philosophy , political science , politics , computer science , economics , physics , finance , astronomy , operating system
The electronic resource of the National Portrait Gallery has 199 images of James VI & I. We turn to the king’s lifetime portraits. Numerous James’s I images that contain the attributes of the knight’s ethos (lattice, horse, sword, honors of the Order of the Garter) make it possible to form the idea of the knight’s ideal transformation, to trace the influence of ethos on the royal etiquette and the diplomatic ceremony during the reign of James VI (1566-1620) & I (1603-1625). In addition to the popularization and maintenance of knight ideals, the Order of the Garter played an important role in shaping the notions of the "English nation". Reconstruction of the image on the basis of imaginative sources makes it possible to find out how the contemporaries perceived to the king. The morality and behavior of the king as the "father" of all the British (paterfamilias) was an exemplum, authority and set the frame for the whole society, because the royal court and the family were perceived as a model. Also the gender was important in the representing of the knight’s image. A conclusion is made about the sacredness of the symbolism of the Order as a means of dialogue between a person of a monarch and his subjects (people).