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Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction-or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of his birthright, Giannino claims for himself the name Jean I, king of France, and sets out on a brave-if ultimately ruinous-quest that leads him across Europe to prove his identity. With the skill of a crime scene detective, Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri digs up evidence in the historical record to follow the story of a life so incredible that it was long considered a literary invention of the Italian Renaissance. From Italy to Hungry, then through Germany and France, the would-be king's unique combination of guile and earnestness seems to command the aid of lords and soldiers, the indulgence of inn-keepers and merchants, and the collusion of priests and rogues along the way. The apparent absurdity of the tale allows Carpegna Falconieri to analyze late-medieval society, exploring questions of essence and appearance, being and belief, at a time when the divine right of kings confronted the rise of mercantile culture. Giannino's life represents a moment in which truth, lies, history, and memory combine to make us wonder where reality leaves off and fiction begins.

Impostors and imposture --- Charlatans --- Imposters --- Pretenders --- Crime --- Criminals --- Europe --- Kings and rulers. --- History --- italian renaissance, history, giannino di guccio, louis x, lost heir, pretender to the throne, monarchy, royalty, cardinal, hundred years war, france, politics, biography, territory, rome, dictator, switched at birth, merchant, birthright, king, identity, quest, italy, hungary, germany, mercantile culture, divine right, belief, essence, appearance, being, imposture, impostors, capetian line, genealogy, nonfiction.

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"Courting Sanctity argues that during the reign of Louis IX (r. 1226-70) holy women were central to the rise of the French royal family's self-presentation as uniquely favored by God, that their influence began to be questioned at the court of Philip III (r. 1270-85), and that would-be holy women were increasingly assumed to pose physical, spiritual, and political threats by the death of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314)"--

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Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” sets out to be the first extensive collection of data on royal iconography from the Middles Ages (476–1492). In particular, it aims to collect entries about the most important rulers or dynasties that reigned during this period, from the Iberian Peninsula to Levant and from the Scandinavian Peninsula to the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, “Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” focuses on royal official images (namely, those representations that were commissioned at the behest of the ruler) and analyses them not only from an iconographic (namely, ‘static’) point of view but also as parts of a more general political communicative strategy (namely, in a ‘dynamic’ way) in order to better clarify their social functions and, consequently, their iconographic meanings. Thanks to this approach, “Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” aims to offer a substantial overview on matters of medieval regal iconography and to be a useful tool for scholars who use royal images for their research.

Biography & True Stories --- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 --- royal images --- royal iconography --- kings of Sicily --- Norman dynasty --- William II of Hauteville --- Aragonese dynasty --- Frederick III of Aragon --- Swabian dynasty --- Frederick II of Hohenstaufen --- kings of Naples --- Angevin dynasty --- Robert of Anjou --- kings of Aragon --- Crown of Aragon --- Peter IV of Aragon --- Alphonse II of Aragon --- crown of Aragon --- Fernando II of Aragon --- James I of Aragon --- Kingdom of Sicily --- Naples --- Joanna of Anjou --- dynastic celebration --- Helen of Anjou --- Nemanide dynasty --- Sopoćani Monastery --- Gradac Monastery --- Queen Helen’s seal --- Vatican icon --- Gračanica Monastery --- King Milutin --- Serbian medieval kingdom --- King’s Church Studenica --- Monastery of Staro Nagorčino --- Monastery of Gračanica --- Nemanide’s Genealogical Tree --- king of Castile and Leon --- Henry II of Castile --- kings of Poland --- rulers of Lithuania --- Jagiellonian dynasty --- Ladislaus II Jagiełło --- Byzantium --- Komnenos --- John II Komnenos --- royal image --- Sasanian Empire --- Khosrow II --- rock relief --- coinage --- Louis XI --- liturgical objects --- Valois kings --- Capetian dynasty --- Order of Saint Michael --- Kingdom of Georgia --- Bagrationi dynasty --- Queen T’amar of Georgia --- legitimacy --- Byzantine imperial costume --- gender studies