The Routledge History of Monarchy

Understanding the mechanisms of monarchy; PART I Models and concepts of rulership; Introduction; The 'wise king' topos in context: royal literacy and political theology in medieval western Europe (c.1000-1200); The biblical King Solomon in representations of western European medieval royalty; Regal power and the royal family in a thirteenth-century Iberian legislative programme; Personal union, composite monarchy and 'multiple rule'; Dynastic succession in an elective monarchy: the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire; Dei gratia and the 'divine right of kings': divine legitimization or human humility?; A case study of pre-modern Islamic monarchy: the Almohad caliphate of the Maghreb and al-Andalus in the 12th-13th centuries; Contemporary kingship in Muslim Arab societies in comparative context; PART II Ritual and representation; Introduction; Faith, power and charity: personal religion and kingship in medieval England; The nation as a ritual community: royal nation-building in imperial Japan and post-war Thailand; The nationalization and mediatization of European monarchies in times of sorrow: royal deaths and funerals in the second half of the nineteenth century; A useless ceremony of some use: a comparative study of attitudes to coronations in Norway and Sweden in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Negotiating with the neighbours: kingship and diplomacy in Munhumutapa; Early modern monarchy and foreign travel; Kingship and masculinity in Renaissance Portugal (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries); Royal representations through the father and warrior figures in early modern Europe; Chasing St Louis: the English monarchy's pursuit of sainthood; Raising royal bodies: Stuart authority and the monumental image; In pursuit of social allies: royal residences and political legitimacy in post-Revolutionary Europe, 1804-30; Clothing royal bodies: changing attitudes to royal dress and appearance from the Middle Ages to modernity; PART III Dynasty and succession; Introduction; Anticipatory association of the heir in early modern Russia: primogeniture and succession in Russia's ruling dynasties; From a Salic Law to the Salic Law: the creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of France; A family affair: cultural anxiety, political debate and the nature of monarchy in seventeenth-century France and Britain; What's in a name? Dynasty, succession and England's queens regnant (1553-2016); Female pharaohs in ancient Egypt; Neither heir nor spare: childless queens and the practice of monarchy in pre-modern Europe; Harem politics: royal women and succession crises in the ancient Near East (c.1400-300 bce); Child kings and guardianship in north-western Europe, c.1050-c.1250; Creating chiefs and queen mothers in Ghana: obstacles and opportunities; Deposition of monarchs in northern kingdoms, 1300-1700; PART IV; Exercising authority and exerting influence; Introduction; Male consorts and royal authority in the Crusader States; Kings and nobles on the fringes of Christendom: a comparative perspective on monarchy and aristocracy in the European Middle Ages; For better or for worse: royal marital sexuality as political critique in late medieval Europe; The Tudor monarchy of counsel and the growth of reason of state; Ruling emotions: affective and emotional strategies of power and authority among early modern European monarchies; From galanterie to scandal: the sexuality of the king from Louis XIV to Louis XVI; Queen Min, foreign policy and the role of female leadership in late nineteenth-century Korea; Index