Blood royal : dynastic politics in medieval Europe / Robert Bartlett.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bartlett, Robert, 1950- author.

Series:

• James Lydon lectures in medieval history and culture
• The James Lydon lectures in medieval history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Royal houses--Europe--History--To 1500.
• Kings and rulers, Medieval.
• Monarchy--Europe--History--To 1500.
• Civilization, Medieval.
• Kinship--Political aspects--Europe--History.
• Kinship--Political aspects.
• History.
• Kinship.
• Monarchy.
• Royal houses.
• Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.
• Europe.
• Politics and government.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 660 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The subject of this book is the family politics of royal and imperial dynasties in Latin Christendom and Byzantium in the period 500-1500. Family politics means competition and cooperation within the ruling family, shaped at every point by the human life-cycle of birth, marriage and death, and also by ideas of what a dynasty was. Hence the two parts of the book, the life-cycle and a sense of dynasty. The main dynasties are listed in Appendix A. A full bibliography on this subject would fill a library but references have been given for all direct quotations and for facts other than those easily accessible A few directly relevant titles have also been cited"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE LIFE CYCLE
• 1. Choosing a Bride
• Marriage with Local Aristocrats
• Foreign Queens
• Homesick Queens
• Foreign Ways
• Inspection of the Bride
• Marriage to the Royal Widow
• Prohibited Degrees
• The Case of Joan of Woodstock
• 2. Waiting for Sons to be Born
• Death in Childbirth
• The Uncertainties of Pregnancy
• Celebration
• Childlessness
• Unmarried Kings and Kings Who Married Late
• 3. Fathers and Sons
• Securing the Succession
• Waiting for Fathers to Die
• Minorities
• 4. Female Sovereigns
• The First Female Sovereigns in Medieval Europe
• The Later Middle Ages
• The Exclusion of Women from Rule
• 5. Mistresses and Bastards
• Concubines
• Noble Mistresses of the High Middle Ages
• Mistresses Drawn from the Queen's Ladies-in-Waiting
• Bastards
• Bastard Kings
• Bastard Culture
• Legitimization
• 6. Family Dynamics
• The Shape of the Dynasty
• Brothers
• Wicked Uncles
• Killing Cousins
• Queens, Sons and Lovers
• 7. Royal Mortality
• Death
• Burial
• pt. II A SENSE OF DYNASTY
• 8. Names and Numbering
• Terminology
• Names of Dynasties
• Naming Patterns within Dynasties
• Numbering of Monarchs
• 9. Saints, Images, Heraldry, Family Trees
• Dynastic Saints
• Public Images
• Heraldry
• Family Trees
• 10. Responses to Dynastic Uncertainty: Prophecy and Astrology
• Astrology
• Prophecy
• 11. Pretenders and Returners: Dynastic Imposters in the Middle Ages
• Recognition
• 12. New Families and New Kingdoms
• Foundation Legends and Founding Figures
• Healing the Dynastic Rent
• Excluded Dynasts
• New Kingdoms
• 13. Dynasties and the Non-Dynastic World
• Elective Monarchy
• Dynasties and the Church
• Republics
• Dynasties and Cities
• Dynasty and the Kingdom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-606) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bartlett, Robert, 1950- Blood royal

ISBN:

• 9781108490672
• 1108490670

OCLC:

1122187392