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How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.
Author : Benjamin Woodford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773541098
How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.
Author : Robert Hazell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509931023
How much power does a monarch really have? How much autonomy do they enjoy? Who regulates the size of the royal family, their finances, the rules of succession? These are some of the questions considered in this edited collection on the monarchies of Europe. The book is written by experts from Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It considers the constitutional and political role of monarchy, its powers and functions, how it is defined and regulated, the laws of succession and royal finances, relations with the media, the popularity of the monarchy and why it endures. No new political theory on this topic has been developed since Bagehot wrote about the monarchy in The English Constitution (1867). The same is true of the other European monarchies. 150 years on, with their formal powers greatly reduced, how has this ancient, hereditary institution managed to survive and what is a modern monarch's role? What theory can be derived about the role of monarchy in advanced democracies, and what lessons can the different European monarchies learn from each other? The public look to the monarchy to represent continuity, stability and tradition, but also want it to be modern, to reflect modern values and be a focus for national identity. The whole institution is shot through with contradictions, myths and misunderstandings. This book should lead to a more realistic debate about our expectations of the monarchy, its role and its future. The contributors are leading experts from all over Europe: Rudy Andeweg, Ian Bradley, Paul Bovend'Eert, Axel Calissendorff, Frank Cranmer, Robert Hazell, Olivia Hepsworth, Luc Heuschling, Helle Krunke, Bob Morris, Roger Mortimore, Lennart Nilsson, Philip Murphy, Quentin Pironnet, Bart van Poelgeest, Frank Prochaska, Charles Powell, Jean Seaton, Eivind Smith.
Author : Sean McGlynn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 9781443862066
Monarchy is an enduring institution that still makes headlines today. It has always been preoccupied with image and perception, never more so than in the period covered by this volume. The collection of papers gathered here from international scholars demonstrates that monarchical image and perception went far beyond cultural, symbolic and courtly display â " although these remain important â " and were, in fact, always deeply concerned with the practical expression of authority, politics and power. This collection is unique in that it covers the subject from two innovative angles: it not only addresses both kings and queens together, but also both the medieval and early modern periods. Consequently, this allows significant comparisons to be made between male and female monarchy as well as between eras. Such an approach reveals that continuity was arguably more important than change over a span of some five centuries. In removing the traditional gender and chronological barriers that tend to lead to four separate areas of studies for kings and queens in medieval and early modern history, the papers here are free to encompass male and female royal rulers ranging across Europe from the early-thirteenth to the late-seventeenth centuries to examine the image and perception of monarchy in England, Scotland, France, Burgundy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Collectively this volume will be of interest to all those studying medieval and early modern monarchy and for those wishing to learn about the connections and differences between the two.
Author : Heather Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 110842936X
Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.
Author : Jeroen Deploige
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9053567674
The power of monarchs has traditionally been as much symbolic as actual, rooted in popular imagery of sovereignty, divinity, and authority. In Mystifying the Monarch, a distinguished group of contributors explores the changing nature of that imagery—and its political and social effects—in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that, rather than a linear progression where perceptions of rulers moved inexorably from the sacred to the banal, in reality the history of monarchy has been one of constant tension between mystification and demystification.
Author : Sean McGlynn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1443868523
Monarchy is an enduring institution that still makes headlines today. It has always been preoccupied with image and perception, never more so than in the period covered by this volume. The collection of papers gathered here from international scholars demonstrates that monarchical image and perception went far beyond cultural, symbolic and courtly display – although these remain important – and were, in fact, always deeply concerned with the practical expression of authority, politics and power. This collection is unique in that it covers the subject from two innovative angles: it not only addresses both kings and queens together, but also both the medieval and early modern periods. Consequently, this allows significant comparisons to be made between male and female monarchy as well as between eras. Such an approach reveals that continuity was arguably more important than change over a span of some five centuries. In removing the traditional gender and chronological barriers that tend to lead to four separate areas of studies for kings and queens in medieval and early modern history, the papers here are free to encompass male and female royal rulers ranging across Europe from the early-thirteenth to the late-seventeenth centuries to examine the image and perception of monarchy in England, Scotland, France, Burgundy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Collectively this volume will be of interest to all those studying medieval and early modern monarchy and for those wishing to learn about the connections and differences between the two.
Author : Melanie Rawn
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101515813
In Tira Virte, art is prized for its beauty and as a binding legal record of everything from marriages to treaties. Yet not even the Grand Duke knows how extraordinary the Grijalva family's art is, for certain Grijalva males are born with the ability to alter events and influence people in the real world through that they paint. Always, their power has been used for Tira Virte. But now Sario Grijalva has learned to use his Gift in a whole new way. And when he begins to work his magic both the Grijalvas and Tira Virte may pay the price.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1811
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Author : Robert Filmer
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1685
Category : Monarchy
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Author : Antonio Feros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521025324
A reappraisal of the reign of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621), and the king's favourite, first published in 2000.