Author: Jeanne Nagle
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1622753488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories of pageantry associated with kings, queens, and the upper class have long captivated readers of all ages. The reality behind how these entities have operated within set governmental systems has not always been as glamorous as these tales, but it retains an allure of its own nonetheless. This book provides a firm grounding in the historic political, social, and economic implications of rule by monarchy, including the prevalence of the feudal system in medieval Europe. Modern monarchies and the role of the aristocracy in every age are also detailed.
Author: Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-19
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781351035149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jeroen Deploige
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9053567674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 1 covers Oriental monarchies and Hellenic ascendency, including the countries of Egypt, Chaldea, Assyria, Medea, Babylon, Persia, Parthia, Greece and Macedonia. Volume 2 covers Roman ascendency through the Dark Ages, including information on Rome, Barbarian ascendency, Mohammedan ascendency, Age of Charlemagne, Feudal ascendency, and the Crusades. Volume 3 covers Middle Ages, Age of Revolution, and Modern Monarchies, including the English Revolution, Age of Frederick the Great, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution. Volume 4 covers the 19th Century, including the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Oriental nations.
Author: Håkon Evju
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-08
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9004394060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Håkon Evju demonstrates how history and historical writing were at the centre of debates over monarchy and monarchical reform politics in Denmark-Norway during the Enlightenment.
Author: Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0195389417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author: Dan Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 841
ISBN-13: 178954355X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator, Books of the Year 'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year 'An amazing masterly gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A badass history writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan 'A triumph' Charles Spencer Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce, conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones's trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting – or stealing – the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations – Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople – and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and women. This is a book written about – and for – an age of profound change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Also available in audio, read by the author.