The Routledge History of Monarchy

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Table
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Understanding the mechanisms of monarchy
	Power, law and religion
	Ceremonial, representation, display
	Dynasty, court and realm
	Continuity, change and comparison
	Notes
	Key works
PART I: Models and concepts of rulership
	Introduction
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 1: The ‘wise king’ topos in context: royal literacy and political theology in medieval western Europe (c.1000–1200)
		Introduction
		The sapiential image of kingship
		Sapiential rulership in the Ottonian and Salian empire
		Sapiential rulership in early Capetian France
		The twelfth-century Renaissance and Plantagenet kingship
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 2: The biblical King Solomon in representations of western European medieval royalty
		Early medieval kingship: the example of the Carolingian rulers and the Byzantine tradition
		Saint Louis, Henry III of England and Alfonso X
		The widespread image of learned kings: the wise kings of the fourteenth century
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 3: Regal power and the royal family in a thirteenth-century Iberian legislative programme
		Introduction
		The Iberian legal tradition
		Regal authority
		The court
		The queen and the king’s mistresses
		The king’s children
		Royal relatives and the household
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 4: Personal union, composite monarchy and ‘multiple rule’
		Definitions
		Origins and endings of personal unions in premodern Europe
		Forces favouring integration and separation
		Institutions and structures
		Political culture
		Further elements: geography, historical coincidences and dynastic ‘pot luck’
		Conclusions and reflections: from personal unions to nation states
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Dynastic succession in an elective monarchy: the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire
		Foundations and transformations of the Habsburg emperorship
		Consolidation at a lower level: the Roman emperorship of the Austrian Habsburgs in the second half of the sixteenth century
		Emperorship in a period of crisis: the age of the Thirty Years’ War
		Leopold I and his sons: the re-ascent of the emperorship – and its limits
		Permanence and change: the Habsburg-Lorraine emperors
		The end of the Roman emperorship
		Conclusion: the characteristics of the Habsburgs’ Roman emperorship
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 6: Dei gratia and the ‘divine right of kings’: divine legitimization or human humility?
		Dei gratia
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 7: A case study of pre-modern Islamic monarchy: the Almohad caliphate of the Maghreb and al-Andalus in the
12th–13th centuries
		Towards a retrospective history
		The Mahdi Ibn Tûmart: founder of the Almohad movement
		‘Abd al-Mu’min: founder of the Almohad empire
		Almohad centralization and the imperial administration
		Mahdism
		The (re-)invention of the tradition of Islamic power
		A new religion, a new chosen people: the Masmûda Berbers
		Muslim kingship: the origins and characteristics of Islamic monarchy
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 8: Contemporary kingship in Muslim Arab societies in comparative context
		Arab monarchy as a historical reference point and post-colonial reality
		Arab kingship and the politics of national legitimacy
		Arab Muslim kingship in a comparatively less royal world
		Notes
		Key works
PART II: Ritual and representation
	Introduction
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 9: Faith, power and charity: personal religion and kingship in medieval England
		European context
		Historical writing on kingship and personal religion in England
		Chaplains, masses, devotional texts and almsgiving
		Demonstration of orthodoxy
		Benefaction, foundation and burial
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 10: The nation as a ritual community: royal nation-building in imperial Japan and post-war Thailand
		Monarchy’s multifaceted symbolism and ritual
		The Meiji Restoration and the making of modern Japan
		The revival of the Thai monarchy after World War II
		The imagined as ritual communities
		Taking possession of the realm
		Virtue, authenticity and modernity
		National and local identities
		Order and hierarchy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works (English only)
	Chapter 11: The nationalization and mediatization of European monarchies in times of sorrow: royal deaths and funerals in the second half of the nineteenth century
		Royal funerals in Europe
		Royal funerals as cultural performances: mise-en-scène and social power
		Royal deaths and the unity of the nation
		The mediatization of royal deathbeds and funerals
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 12: A useless ceremony of some use: a comparative study of attitudes to coronations in Norway and Sweden in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
		The coronations of Carl XIV Johan and Oscar I
		The coronations of Carl XV
		Oscar II’s coronations
		The end of coronations
		A replacement for coronations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 13: Negotiating with the neighbours: kingship and diplomacy in Munhumutapa
		Munhumutapa and its relations with the Portuguese: pathways of diplomacy and war
		Receiving and sending embassies
		Diplomacy and gift exchange
		Legitimizing external relations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 14: Early modern monarchy and foreign travel
		Entourage and anonymity
		Transport
		Speed and difficulty
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 15: Kingship and masculinity in Renaissance Portugal (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries)
		Context
		Portuguese Renaissance royal and princely models
		Practices of masculinity and manhood in Renaissance Portugal
		Hegemonic vs. subaltern masculinities
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 16: Royal representations through the father and warrior figures in early modern Europe
		Monarchs as fathers to their country: divine rights and the defence of Christianity
		Queen Elizabeth I of England: a father to her country?
		Monarchs as warriors: military prowess and public demonstrations of power
		King Henry III of France: a warrior king?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 17: Chasing St Louis: the English monarchy’s pursuit of sainthood
		Who and what made a medieval royal saint?
		The English candidates
		The English problems: the international front
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 18: Raising royal bodies: Stuart authority and the monumental image
		Sacred bodies
		Public bodies
		Monumental interventions
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 19: In pursuit of social allies: royal residences and political legitimacy in post-Revolutionary Europe, 1804–30
		Legitimizing a return
		Legitimizing conquest
		Legitimizing restoration
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 20: Clothing royal bodies: changing attitudes to royal dress and appearance from the Middle Ages to modernity
		The demonstration of royal authority: royal dress and appearance before c.1640
		The defence of royal authority: royal dress and appearance between c.1640 and c.1840
		The display of royal authority: royal dress and appearance after c.1840
		Notes
		Key works
PART III: Dynasty and succession
	Introduction
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 21: Anticipatory association of the heir in early modern Russia: primogeniture and succession in Russia’s ruling dynasties
		Testaments and primogeniture
		Vasilii II and the Muscovite Civil War
		Ivan III and the dynastic crisis of 1498–1502
		Heirs and successors in the new dynasties
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 22: From a Salic Law to the Salic Law: the creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of France
		Pactus Legis Salicæ
		The Carolingian–Capetian transition
		The fourteenth-century crises
		Creating the Salic Law
		The Salic Law in France
		Out of France, into Europe
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 23: A family affair: cultural anxiety, political debate and the nature of monarchy in seventeenth-century France and Britain
		Anxieties reflected in the arts
		A history of royal successions
		Sibling rivalries and the apanage
		Conclusions: from revolt to accomodation
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 24: What’s in a name? Dynasty, succession and England’s queens regnant (1553–2016)
		Monarch, family, nation
		Past and present
		Present and future
		Dynasty today
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 25: Female pharaohs in ancient Egypt
		Queen or female king?
		Sobekneferu
		Hatshepsut
		Tausret
		Cleopatra
		The (after)lives of the female pharaohs
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 26: Neither heir nor spare: childless queens and the practice of monarchy in pre-modern Europe
		Chance or choice? Infertility, chastity, miscarriages and the problem of medieval medical knowledge
		Medical remedies
		Spiritual remedies
		Queenship is more than biological motherhood
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 27: Harem politics: royal women and succession crises in the ancient Near East (c.1400–300 bce)
		Sex as politics
		A harem Who’s-Who
		Mother love and sibling rivalry
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 28: Child kings and guardianship in north-western Europe, c.1050–c.1250
		Appointment and guardianship
		Suitability and opposition
		Acting for the king
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 29: Creating chiefs and queen mothers in Ghana:
obstacles and opportunities
		Chieftaincy in Ghana
		The Asante
		Succession and the queen mother
		Disputes and dramas in Ghanaian chieftaincy
		National and international influences
		British colonialism
		Government interference and the constitution
		The economy
		The diaspora
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 30: Depositions of monarchs in northern European kingdoms, 1300–1700
		Political elites and royal dynasties
		Reasons for deposing a monarch
		Renouncing of allegiance and rival kings
		Chains of depositions in English history
		Deposition without deposing: forced abdications
		The most radical forms of deposition: depositions and regicides
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Key works
PART IV: Exercising authority and exerting influence
	Introduction
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 31: Male consorts and royal authority in the Crusader States
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 32: Kings and nobles on the fringes of Christendom: a comparative perspective on monarchy and aristocracy in the European Middle Ages
		Nobility on the Iberian Peninsula and in Scandinavia
		Royal minorities: questionable authority
		Rebellion: challenging authority
		Conclusion: comparisons and contingencies
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 33: For better or for worse: royal marital sexuality as political critique in late medieval Europe
		Introduction
		Gender, sexuality and rulership
		The incapable king
		The neglected queen
		The scheming intruder
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 34: The Tudor monarchy of counsel and the growth of reason of state
		Studying the English discourse of counsel
		Changing discourses of counsel
		Queen Elizabeth I and Reason of State
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 35: Ruling emotions: affective and emotional strategies of power and authority among early modern European monarchies
		The emotions of statecraft
		The emotions of individuals
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 36: From galanterie to scandal: the sexuality of the king from Louis XIV to Louis XVI
		Notes
		Key works
	Chapter 37: Queen Min, foreign policy and the role of female leadership in late nineteenth-century Korea
		Introduction
		Being queen in late nineteenth-century Korea
		The context of Queen Min’s rule
		Queen Min’s assassination
		Posthumous images of Korea’s female ruler
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Key works
Index