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.
Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious 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.
Author(s): Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Chris Jones, Zita Rohr, Russell Martin
Series: Routledge Histories
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 760
City: London
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
