The Routledge history of monarchy / edited by Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Chris Jones, Russell E. Martin and Zita Eva Rohr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woodacre, Elena, editor.

Dean, Lucinda H. S., editor.

Jones, Chris, 1977- editor.

Martin, Russell, 1963- editor.

Rohr, Zita Eva, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge histories

The Routledge histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monarchy--History.

Monarchy.

History.

Kings and rulers--History.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 736 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Elena Woodacre is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Winchester, UK, and a specialist in queenship and royal studies. Elena is the founder of the Royal Studies Network and the 'Kings and Queens' conferences and editor of the Royal Studies Journal, the Gender and Power in the Premodern World and the Queens of England series. Lucinda H.S. Dean is a Lecturerat the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, and a specialist in late medieval and early modern ritual and ceremony of the Scottish monarchy. She has published widely in this area and co-edited a volume on Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles (2016). Chris Jones is an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His work focuses upon medieval France and political thought. Among his publications is the monograph Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and Its Rulers in Late Medieval France (2007). He is Director of the Canterbury Roll Project and President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Incorporated (ANZAMEMS). Russell E. Martin is Professor of History at Westminster College, USA. He is widely published and the author of A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian-American Slavic Studies, President of the Early Slavic Studies Association and a member of the Chancellery of the Head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanoff (Moscow). Zita Eva Rohr is a political historian of the late medieval and early modern periods and has published widely in the field of gendered political and diplomatic history, including her monograph Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442): Family and Power (2016). She is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia, in the Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations.

Summary:

"The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Understanding the mechanisms of monarchy / Elena Woodacre

The "wise king" topos in context : royal literacy and political theology in medieval Western Europe (c.1000-1200) / Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña

The biblical King Solomon in representations of Western European medieval royalty / Laura Fábián

Regal power and the royal family in a thirteenth-century Iberian legislative programme / Manuela Santos Silva

Personal union, composite monarchy, and "multiple rule" / Charlotte Backerra

Dynastic succession in an elective monarchy : the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire / Matthias Schnettger

Dei gratia and the "divine right of kings" : divine legitimization or human humility? / Matthias Range

A case-study of pre-modern Islamic monarchy : the Almohad Caliphate of the Maghreb and al-Andalus in the 12th-13th centuries / Pascal Buresi

Contemporary kingship in Muslim Arab societies in comparative context / David Mednicoff

Faith, power and charity : personal religion and kingship in medieval England / Paul Webster

The nation as a ritual community : royal nation-building in imperial Japan and post-war Thailand / David Malitz

The nationalisation and mediatisation of European monarchies in times of sorrow : royal deaths and funerals in the second half of the nineteenth century / Christoph de Spiegeleer

A useless ceremony of some use : a comparative study of attitudes to coronations in Norway and Sweden in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Trond Isaksen

Negotiating with the neighbours : kingship and diplomacy in Munhumutapa / Eugénia Rodrigues

Early modern monarchy and foreign travel / Philippa Woodcock

Kingship and masculinity in Renaissance Portugal (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) / Hélder Carvalhal

Royal representation through the father and warrior figures in early modern Europe / Estelle Paranque

Chasing St. Louis : the English monarchy's pursuit of sainthood / Anna Duch

Raising royal bodies : Stuart authority and the monumental image / Catriona Murray

In pursuit of social allies : royal residences and political legitimacy in post-revolutionary Europe, 1804-1830 / Mikolaj Getka-Kenig

Clothing royal bodies : changing attitudes to royal dress and appearance from the Middle Ages to modernity / Benjamin Wild

Anticipatory association of the heir in early modern Russia : primogeniture and succession in Russia's ruling dynasties / Russell E. Martin

From a Salic law to the Salic law : the creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of medieval France / Derek Whaley

A family affair : cultural anxiety, political debate and the nature of monarchy in seventeenth-century France and Britain / Jonathan Spangler

What's in a name? Dynasty, succession and England's queens regnant (1553-2016) / Sarah Betts

Female pharaohs in ancient Egypt / Aidan Norrie

Neither heir nor spare : childless queens and the practice of monarchy in pre-modern Europe / Theresa Earenfight and Kristen Geaman

Harem politics : royal women and succession crises in the ancient Near East (c. 1400-300 BCE) / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Child kings and guardianship in North-Western Europe c. 1050-c. 1250 / Emily Joan Ward

Creating chiefs and queen mothers in Ghana : obstacles and opportunities / Beverly J. Stoeltje

Deposition of of monarchs in Northern Kingdoms, 1300-1700 / Cathleen Sarti

Male consorts and royal authority in the Crusader States / Stephen Donnachie

Kings and nobles on the fringe of Christendom : a comparative perspective on monarchy and aristocracy in the European Middle Ages / Kim Bergqvist

For better or for worse : royal marital sexuality as political critique in late medieval Europe / Henric Bagerius and Christine Ekholst

The Tudor monarchy of counsel and the growth of reason of state / Joanne Paul with Valerie Schutte

Ruling emotions : affective and emotional strategies of power and authority among early modern European monarchies / Susan Broomhall

From galanterie to scandal : the sexuality of the king from Louis XIV to XVI / Chad Denton

Queen Min, foreign policy, and the role of female leadership in late nineteenth-century Korea / Frank Jacob

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781315203195

1315203197

9781351787314

1351787314

9781351787291

1351787292

9781351787307

1351787306

OCLC:

1104535423

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