Inhalt: | Introduction / Jonathan Spangler -- "The very next blood of the king" : legitimisation and adaptation of the law of female succession in English history / Lynsey Wood -- Portugal, 1385: a people's choice or coup d'état? / Isabel de Pina Baleiras -- From election to consolidation: the strategies of legitimacy of the Trastámara Dynasty in the Crown of Aragon / Lledó Ruiz Domingo -- Sigismund of Sweden as foreigner in his own kingdom: how the King of Sweden was made an alien / Cathleen Sarti -- Free election, divine providence and constitution: legitimacy of royal power in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Jolanta Choinska-Mika and Katarzyna Kuras -- Legitimacy through family traditions? The Hanoverians represented as successors to the throne of Great Britain / Charlotte Backerra -- "The reversal of dynasties" during the Bourbon Era in the Kingdom of Naples / Cinzia Recca -- Purple dreams of the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium in manuscript illuminations: legitimising the usurping emperor, Basil I (867-886) / Alexandra Karagianni -- "King by fact, not by law": legitimacy and exequies in medieval England / Anna Duch -- The exaltation of the "holiness" of the Bragança dynasty as a legitimating strategy in the seventeenth century / Paula Almeida Mendes -- Consolidating authority in seventeenth-century Morocco: Sultan Moulay Ismail's strategies for legitimacy / Fatima Rhorchi -- Dominae imperiales: Ottonian women and dynastic stability, strength and legitimacy in tenth-century Germany / Penelope Nash -- Legitimacy represented through court entertainment: La Estatua de Prometeo and the power struggle between Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan José of Austria / Caitlin Brady Carter -- Catherine the Great: how the question of legitimacy influenced her politics / Elena Teibenbacher. "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. Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, and broad in both geographical and chronological scope, 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" -- |
