Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

ISBN-13: 9781138490574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

Ana Maria S. a. Rodrigues; Manuela Santos Silva; Jonathan W. Spangler

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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. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

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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’état?  3 From Election to Consolidation: The Strategies of Legitimacy of the Trastámara 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 Bragança 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 José of Austria  14 Catherine the Great: How the Question of Legitimacy Influenced her Politics