Murder and monarchy : regicide in European history, 1300-1800
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Murder and monarchy : regicide in European history, 1300-1800
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of regicide in Britain and Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800 (1300-1800). Using case studies of physical assaults on kings and on members of royal families, major changes and continuities in the meaning and nature of monarchy across periods and societies are brought to light. The volume ranges from Gothic kingship to the transformation of monarchy within the emerging modern constitutional context of the American and French Revolutions. The introduction and the contributions of fifteen leading senior scholars from England, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and Germany provide cutting edge research on the changing relationship between monarchy and society in medieval and early modern Europe.
Table of Contents
- PART I: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS Introduction
- R.Von Friedeburg The Office of Rule and the Rhetorics of Tyrannicide in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- C.Condren PART II: MEDIEVAL KINGS AND THE MAKING OF MONARCHY Murder and Monarchy in the Visigothic Kingdoms
- J.Hillgarth Murdering the Anointed
- J.P.Genet PART III: REX INUTILIS: THE DEFENCE OF MONARCHY AGAINST ITS KINGS IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE Resisting and Deposing Kings in England in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
- C.Carpenter France in the 15th Century
- N.Bulst Limitations to Monarchical Power
- W.Blockmans PART IV: 'NEW MONARCHY - NEW MONARCHS?' THE PUNISHMENT OF TYRANTS, HERETICS AND TRAITORS 'Pro me si mereor in me': Kingship and Tyranny in Scotland, 1437-1587
- J.H.Burns The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
- D.Loades The French Monarchy and the Assassination of Henry III
- M.Greengrass PART V: RELGIOUS TURMOIL AND THE DEFENCE OF ORDER BY MONARCHICAL MEANS Murder and Monarchy in France
- L.Bely Regicide: The Execution of Charles I and English Political Thought
- G.Burgess PART VI: THE DAWN OF EARLY MODERN MONARCHY Medieval and Early Modern Constitutionalism and Autocracy: Monarchy in Sweden and Russia and the Eighteenth Century Regicides
- K.Zernack The Breakdown of the Rule of Law: A Comparative View of the Depositions of George III, Louis XVI and Napoleon I
- V.Sellin PART VII: VISIONS OF MONARCHY, OLD AND NEW Conclusion
- J.Morrill Index
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