Murder and monarchy : regicide in European history, 1300-1800 / edited by Robert von Friedeburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedeburg, Robert von.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monarchy--Europe--History.

Monarchy.

Regicides--Europe--History.

Regicides.

Kings and rulers.

History.

Europe--Kings and rulers--Death and burial.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiv, 307 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of regicide in Britain and Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800 (1300-1800). Using case studies of physical assaults on kings and on members of royal families, major changes and continuities in the meaning and nature of monarchy across periods and societies are brought to light. The volume ranges from Gothic kingship to the transformation of monarchy within the emerging modern constitutional context of the American and French Revolutions. The introduction and the contributions of fifteen leading senior scholars from England, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and Germany combine cutting edge research with authoritative synthesis on the changing relationship between monarchy and society in medieval and early modern Europe.

Contents:

Part I Conceptual Questions: Terminological Problems 1

2 The Office of Rule and the Rhetorics of Tyrannicide in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: An Overview / Conal Condren 48

Part II Medieval Kings and the Making of Monarchy 73

3 Murder and Monarchy in the Visigothic Kingdoms / J.N. Hillgarth 75

4 Murdering the Anointed / Jean Philippe Genet 83

Part III Rex Inutilis: The Defence of Monarchy against its Kings in Late-Medieval Europe 97

5 Resisting and Deposing Kings in England in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Christine Carpenter 99

6 France in the Fifteenth Century / Neithard Bulst 122

7 Limitations to Monarchical Power / Wim Blockmans 136

Part IV 'New Monarchy': 'New Monarchs'? The Punishment of Tyrants, Heretics and Traitors 147

8 Pro Me Si Mereor In Me: Kingship and Tyranny in Scotland, 1437-1587 / James Burns 149

9 The English State and the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots / David Loades 159

10 Regicide, Martyrs and Monachical Authority in France in the Wars of Religion / Mark Greengrass 176

Part V Religious Turmoil and the Defence of Order by Monarchical Means 193

11 Murder and Monarchy in France / Lucien Bely 195

12 Regicide: The Execution of Charles I and English Political Thought / Glenn Burgess 212

Part VI The Dawn of Early Modern Monarchy 237

13 Medieval and Early Modern Constitutionalism and Autocracy: Monarchy in Sweden and Russia and the Eighteenth-Century Regicides / Klaus Zernack 239

14 The Breakdown of the Rule of Law: A Comparative View of the Depositions of George III, Louis XVI and Napoleon I / Volker Sellin 259

Part VII Visions of Monarchy, Old and New 291

15 Conclusion: King-Killing in Perspective / John Morrill 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

140393455X

OCLC:

55131469