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Kingship  Historiography  Database

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Source Type
Author(s)
Publication Title
Publication Details
Monarch/Figure
Keywords
Place(s)
Period(s)
Monograph
Rose, Jacqueline.
Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660-1688.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Henry VIII of England; James II of England; Charles I of England; Charles II of England; Elizabeth I of England; and others
kingship, royal authority/supremacy, religious conflict/policies, revolution, parliament, church courts, uniformity, religious worship/orthodoxy, political & court culture, queenship, female rule
England
Early Modern
Edited Collection
Rutledge, Douglas F.
Ceremony and Text in the Renaissance.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996.
Elizabeth I of England; Edward VI of England; Henry VIII of England; Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor; and others
kingship, queenship, religious & secular ceremony, rituals, court culture, literary production, performance, language, meaning/symbolism, religious worship/services, spectacles, royal entries, gender/gender roles, royal progresses, funeral, coronation, wedding festivities
Europe
Early Modern
Monograph
Sainty, John Christopher, Bucholz, R. O. and University of London.
Officials of the Royal household 1660-1837.
London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 1998.
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kingship, queenship, institution of monarchy, royal household, officials/officers
England
Early Modern/Modern
Chapter
Sarti, Cathleen.
"Losing an Unexpected Throne: Deposing Second Sons of the Stuart Dynasty."
In Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, ed. Valerie Schutte, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
James I/VI of England/Scotland; Charles I of England; Charles II of England; James II of England; and others
kingship, unexpected heirs, deposition, royal dignity, divine kingship, political & court culture, political elite
England
Early Modern
Article
Schama, Simon.
"The Domestication of Majesty: Royal Family Portraiture, 1500-1850."
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 17:1, 1986, pp. 155�183.
Louis XIV of France; Elizabeth II of United Kingdom; Victoria of Great Britain; George V of England; Henrietta Maria; Anne of Austria; Albert of Saxe-Coburg/Gotha; Henry VIII of England; Henry VII of England; Elizabeth of York; Jane Seymour; and others
kingship, queenship, royal power, institution of monarchy, imagery, symbolism, dynasty, royal family, portraits, visual representations/depictions, sovereignty
Europe
Early Modern/Modern
Edited Collection
Schutte, Valerie, ed.
Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Anne of Austria, Queen of France; Anne Boleyn; Charles I of England; Charles IX of France; Christina, Queen of Sweden; Catherine de Medici; Edward VI of England; Elizabeth I of England; Henry III of France; Henry IV of England; James VI/I of Scotland/England; Katherine of Aragon; Mary I of England; Marie de Medici; Margaret Tudor of Scotland; Mary, Queen of Scots; Philip II of Spain; and many others
monarchy, kingship, queenship, abdication/deposition, diplomacy, foreign relations, unexpected heirs, religious politics, royal authority, sovereignty, book dedications, ceremony, religion, conversion, religious belief/devotion, piety, divine right, motherhood, patronage, performance, royal prerogative, primogeniture, propaganda, royal children, succession, treason
Europe
Early Modern
Source Book
Scott, Eva.
The Travels of the King: Charles II in Germany and Flanders, 1654-1660.
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1907.
Charles II of England; references to Philip IV of Spain; Catherine of Braganza
kingship, warfare, military campaign, diplomacy, foreign relations, political & court culture, royal progresses/travels, source material
Germany
Early Modern
Monograph
Sharpe, Kevin.
Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England
New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009.
Henry VII of England; Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England
kingship, queenship, royal authority/supremacy, literary & visual representation, imagery, symbolism, propaganda, political & court culture, ceremony/rituals, spectacles
England
Early Modern
Monograph
Sharpe, Kevin.
Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Charles II of England; Catherine of Braganza; James II of England; Mary II of England; William III of England/Orange; Anne of Great Britain: and others
kingship, queenship, royal authority, imagery, rhetoric/language, propaganda, political & court culture, spectacles
England
Early Modern
Article
Sherlock, Peter.
"The Monuments of Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart: King James and the Manipulation of Memory."
Journal of British Studies, 46:2, 2007, pp. 263�289.
Elizabeth I of England; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
queenship, kingship, female rule, royal authority, cultural memory, tombs/monuments
England
Early Modern
Monograph
Smith, Hannah.
Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture, 1714-1760.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
George I of Great Britain; George II of Great Britain; Caroline of Ansbach; Sophia Dorothea of Celle
kingship, queenship, institution of monarchy, dynasty, political & court culture, loyalism, ceremony, royal spectacle, self fashioning, literary & visual representation/depictions
Britain
Early modern/ modern
Chapter
Smuts, Malcom.
"Public Ceremony and Royal Charisma: The English Royal Entry in London, 1485-1642."
In The First Modern Society: Essay in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone, eds. A.L. Beier, David Cannadine and James M. Rosenheim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Elizabeth I of England; Charles I of England; Henry V of England; Mary I of England; and other
kingship, queenship, institution of monarchy, rituals, ceremony, behaviour, symbolism/imagery, literary & visual representations/depictions, masques, portraits, royal entries
England
Early Modern
Edited Collection
So, Francis K.H. ed.
Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Charles I of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda (Maude); Matilda of Boulogne; George III; Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor; Henry VI of England; Henry VIII of England; James I/VI of England/Scotland; Charles II of England; Margaret of Anjou; Henrietta Maria; Marie de Medici; Elizabeth I of England; and others
queenship, kingship, female power/authority, literary representations/depictions, patronage, political & court culture, political leadership/participation, foreign relations, religion, religious politics/devotion, gender roles, legal status, dual bodies concept,
Europe
Medieval/Early Modern
Monograph
Solnon, Jean-Francois.
Les Couples Royeaux Dans L'Histoire: Le pouvoir � quatre mains.
Paris: Perrin, 2012.
Justin I, East Holy Roman Emperor; Theodora; Nicholas II of Russia; Alix of Hesse; Isabella I of Castile; Ferdinand of Aragon; Louis XIII of France; Anne of Austria; Louis XVI; Marie Antoinette; and many others
kingship, queenship, consort, co-rule, governance, political influence/participation, political & court culture, royal couples, marriage
Global
Medieval/Early Modern/Modern
Chapter
Spangler, Jonathan.
"Expected, then Passed Over: Second Sons in the French Monarchy of the Seventeenth Century."
In Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, ed. Valerie Schutte, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Louis XIII of France; Anne of Austria; Louis XIV of France; and others
kingship, unexpected heirs, succession, political & court culture, family relations, patronage, sovereignty, absolute monarchy, princely authority, dynasty, dynastic politics/crisis
France
Early Modern
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