Dynastic change : legitimacy and gender in medieval and early modern monarchy
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Dynastic change : legitimacy and gender in medieval and early modern monarchy
（Themes in medieval and early modern history）
Routledge, 2020
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras.
Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical families reacted, adjusted or strategised when faced with dynastic crises of various kinds, such as a lack of a male heir or unfitness of a reigning monarch for rule, through the consideration of such themes as the role of royal women, the uses of the arts for representational and propaganda purposes and the impact of religion or popular will. Broad in both chronological and geographical scope, chapters discuss examples from the 9th to the 18th centuries across such places as Morocco, Byzantium, Portugal, Russia and Western Europe, showing readers how cultural, religious and political differences across countries and time periods affected dynastic relations.
Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, the book highlights parallels across time and place, encouraging a new approach to monarchy studies. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Dynastic Change 1 "The very next blood of the King": the rules governing female succession to the throne in English history 2 Portugal, 1385: A People's Choice or Coup d'etat? 3 From Election to Consolidation: The Strategies of Legitimacy of the Trastamara Dynasty in the Crown of Aragon 4 Sigismund of Sweden as Foreigner in his own Kingdom. How the King of Sweden was made an Alien 5 Free Election, Divine Providence and Constitution. Legitimacy of Royal Power in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 6 Legitimacy through Family Traditions? The Hanoverians Represented as Successors to the Throne of Great Britain 7 "The Reversal of Dynasties" During the Bourbon Era in the Kingdom of Naples Part 2: Legitimising Royal Authority 8 Purple Dreams of the Macedonian Dynasty of Byzantium in Manuscript Illuminations: Legitimising the Usurping Emperor, Basil I (867-886) 9 "King by Fact, Not by Law": Legitimacy and Exequies in Medieval England 10 The Exaltation of the "Holiness" of the Braganca Dynasty as a Legitimating Strategy in the Seventeenth Century 11 Consolidating Authority in Seventeenth-Century Morocco: Sultan Moulay Ismail's Strategies for Legitimacy 12 Dominae imperiales: Ottonian Women and Dynastic Stability, Strength and Legitimacy in Tenth-Century Germany 13 Legitimacy Represented through Court Entertainment: La estatua de Prometeo and the Power Struggle Between Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan Jose of Austria 14 Catherine the Great: How the Question of Legitimacy Influenced her Politics
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