The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
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- 28EW3
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Press
- ISBN
- 9781443862066
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Additional information
- The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2014) is a collection of fifteen case studies of monarchs and monarchy in late medieval and early modern Europe. Dr Elena Woodacre co-edited this volume with Dr Sean McGlynn from the initial conception for the themes, coordinating with the contributors and publisher from proposal to publication and writing the introduction together. The two editors also co-organized the first Kings and Queens conference in 2012 which led to the creation of successful annual series. This volume is connected to and inspired by the conference but is only partly its proceedings. While some chapters, such those by Hicks and Richardson, derive from papers given at the conference, others, such as Whitelock’s, were invited to create a strong and cohesive collection around the theme. Key areas explored by the interdisciplinary and international group of scholars include gender, expectations of rulers as well as ritual, ceremonial and memory. Taken together, this collection offers a dynamic and complementary selection of studies which give a fresh insight into the perception of individual rulers and the practice of rulership itself in premodern Europe.
Woodacre’s chapter “Most Excellent and Serene Lady: Representations of Female Authority in the Documents, Seals and Coinage of the Reigning Queens of Navarre (1274-1512)” examines how regnant queens expressed their authority, both alone and vis-à-vis their kings consort in these sources. The Queens’ coinage has never been examined collectively alongside their seals and documents to provide a cohesive study of these key mechanisms for projecting authority. This material complements but does not overlap with Woodacre’s monograph on the regnant queens of Navarre, which focused more broadly on the reigns of the queens themselves, the challenges of being female successors and the power sharing dynamic that the queens formed with their spouses.
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