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This collection pits the 'walk' (what happened in practice) against
the 'talk' (the theories, preferences, and biases of thinkers and
commentators) which gives students and researchers the full picture
of where these case studies sit within the broader framework of
'others'. Deviance and difference are a growing field and this
collection draws the latest work being done from across the
premodern world. Providing students and researchers with the state
of the field and new examples to inform their own work. The case
studies in this collection are archivally-based, not issues-driven.
They have been consciously collected as 'aspect' case studies to
increase the readers understanding of difference in the premodern
world.
This collection pits the 'walk' (what happened in practice) against
the 'talk' (the theories, preferences, and biases of thinkers and
commentators) which gives students and researchers the full picture
of where these case studies sit within the broader framework of
'others'. Deviance and difference are a growing field and this
collection draws the latest work being done from across the
premodern world. Providing students and researchers with the state
of the field and new examples to inform their own work. The case
studies in this collection are archivally-based, not issues-driven.
They have been consciously collected as 'aspect' case studies to
increase the readers understanding of difference in the premodern
world.
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.
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.
Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France,
the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish
themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed
Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying
the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled
by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor
sovereign house, they represent a cadre of early modern elites who
are difficult to categorise neatly: neither fully sovereign princes
nor fully subject nobility. They might have spent most of their
time in one state, France, but their interests were always
'trans-national'; contested spaces far from the major centres of
monarchical power - from the Ardennes to the Italian peninsula -
were frequent theatres of activity for semi-sovereign border
families such as the Lorraine-Guise. This nexus of activity, and
the interplay between princely status and representation, is the
subject of this book. The essays in this collection approach Guise
aims, ambitions and self-fashioning using this 'trans-national'
dimension as context: their desire for increased royal (rather than
merely princely) power and prestige, and the use of representation
(visual and literary) in order to achieve it. Guise claims to
thrones and territories from Jerusalem to Naples are explored,
alongside the Guise 'dream of Italy', with in-depth studies of
Henry of Lorraine, fifth Duke of Guise, and his attempts in the
mid-seventeenth century to gain a throne in Naples. The combination
of the violence and drama of their lives at the centres of European
power and their adroit use of publicity ensured that versions of
their strongly delineated images were appropriated by chroniclers,
playwrights and artists, in which they sometimes featured as they
would have wished, as heroes and heroines, frequently as villains,
and ultimately as characters in the narratives of national
heritage.
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