Dynastic change : legitimacy and gender in medieval and early modern monarchy

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
List of contributors
Introduction
	The idea of legitimacy
	A history of legitimacy
	Gaining and keeping legitimacy
	Notes
	Bibliography
PART I: Dynastic change
	Chapter 1: “The very next blood of the King”: the rules governing female succession to the throne in English history
		The twelfth-century example of Matilda
		The problem of female succession in later medieval England
		The law of female succession in Tudor England
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2: Portugal, 1385: a people’s choice or coup d’état?
		The reign of Fernando of Portugal: marriage and wars
		Beatriz of Portugal
		The regency of Queen Leonor Teles
		The Master of Avis
		The Cortes of Coimbra, 1385
		A closer look at the Cortes of Coimbra and the enthronement of João I
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: From election to consolidation: the strategies of legitimacy of the Trastámara dynasty in the Crown of Aragon
		1410–12: the claims to the Aragonese throne – five candidates, one throne
		1412–16: consolidation and legitimisation of the Trastámara dynasty in Aragon
		1416–58: extending the legitimisation strategy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Sigismund of Sweden as foreigner in his own kingdom: how the king of Sweden was made an alien
		Depositions forming national culture
		Foreignness, religion, and political representation as dynastic battlefields
		Political identity and the change of rulers of 1599
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Free election, divine providence, and constitution: legitimacy of royal power in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
		The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin (1569) and the origins of the free election
		The Henrician Articles: a quasi-constitution?
		The sacral character of royal power and the ceremony of coronation
		The last free election, 1764
		The end of free election and the constitution of 3 May 1791
		Conclusion
		List of Polish monarchs (XVI–XVIII centuries)
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Legitimacy through family traditions? The Hanoverians represented as successors to the throne of Great Britain
		Great Britain and Hanover
		Medals as sources
		Dynasty: Leibniz and the uses of Guelph history
		Religion: defenders of the faith
		Politics: liberty and the people
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Medals
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: The reversal of dynasties during the Bourbon era in the Kingdom of Naples
		Charles of Bourbon, Elizabeth Farnese, and a dynastic return to Italy
		Maria Carolina and the re-Habsburgisation of southern Italy
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART II: Legitimising royal authority
	Chapter 8: Purple dreams of the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium in manuscript illuminations: legitimising the usurping emperor, Basil I (867–86)
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: “King by fact, not by law”: legitimacy and exequies in medieval England
		Burying a king
		King by fact, not by law
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: The exaltation of the “holiness” of the Bragança dynasty as a legitimating strategy in the seventeenth century
		King John IV
		Queen Luísa de Guzman
		Prince Teodósio
		Princess Joana; Princess Catherine, Queen of England; and Princess Isabel Luísa Josefa
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Consolidating authority in seventeenth-century Morocco: Sultan Moulay Ismail’s strategies for legitimacy
		Moulay Ismail’s struggle for legitimacy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Dominae imperiales: Ottonian women and dynastic stability, strength, and legitimacy in tenth-century Germany
		Background
		Otto II’s death
		Stability and strength of the realm, 983–95
		Context and conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Legitimacy represented through court entertainment: La estatua de Prometeo and the power struggle between Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan José of Austria
		The play and its scholarly reception
		Don Juan José’s pursuit of a leadership role in the Spanish court and the dilemma of Carlos II’s authority
		La estatua de Prometeo’s open ending
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: Catherine the Great: how the question of legitimacy influenced her politics
		Creating legitimacy
		Legitimacy through ability and heritage
		Representing legitimacy
		Legitimacy justifies autocracy
		Threatened legitimacy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index