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The British monarchy on screen
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ISBN: 152610976X 152611304X 9781526113047 9780719099564 0719099560 9781526109767 0719099560 9780719099564 Year: 2016 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. And from 1896, actual British monarchs appeared in the new 'animated photography', led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century's end, Princess Diana's funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyze the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to 'William and Kate'. Seventeen essays by Ian Christie, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andrew Higson, Karen Lury, Glynn Davies, Jane Landman and other international commentators examine the portrayal of royalty in the 'actuality' picture, the early extended feature, amateur cinema, the movie melodrama, the Commonwealth documentary, New Queer Cinema, TV current affairs, the big screen ceremonial and the post-historical boxed set. A long overdue contribution to film and television studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of British media and political history.


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Filles de roy de France : princesses royales, mémoire de saint Louis et conscience dynastique (de 1270 à la fin du XIVe siècle)
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ISBN: 9782503535944 Year: 2010 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Voici une histoire du sang royal au féminin. De 1270 à la fin du XIVe siècle, le statut des princesses royales en France est en cours de normalisation. Les filles du roi sont progressivement exclues du trône, des apanages et de la pairie. Mais la canonisation de Louis IX et la valorisation du lignage royal renforcent leur prestige. Elles obtiennent, sinon un patrimoine, du moins un rang spécifique et la reconnaissance d'une qualité. Elles ont aussi un rôle important dans la construction de la mémoire de saint Louis et dans la diffusion de son culte. Au cours de cette période, la conscience dynastique passe par une célébration des rois défunts, mais aussi de leurs parents, hommes et femmes. C'est un domaine dans lequel la présence féminine est acceptée aux côtés de celle des princes, du fait des liens étroits entre les parentes du roi et le sacré.


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Die Fürsten von Anhalt-Zerbst
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ISBN: 3869451424 9783869451428 1306582326 9781306582322 Year: 2010 Publisher: Nordhausen Traugott Bautz

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Anhalt-Zerbst erlangte durch Katharina die Große weithin Bekanntheit. Die berühmte Tochter des Fürstenhauses wurde 1762 Zarin von Russland. Als ihr Bruder Fürst Friedrich August von Anhalt-Zerbst 1793 ohne Leibeserben starb, endete die 190 Jahre lange Geschichte des anhaltischen Teilfürstentums, die mit Fürst Rudolf begründet worden war. Porträtiert werden die Lebenswege der sieben Fürsten von Anhalt-Zerbst.


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Die Karolinger und die Abbasiden von Bagdad : Legitimationsstrategien frühmittelalterlicher Herrscherdynastien im transkulturellen Vergleich
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ISBN: 9783050045603 3050045604 1306486467 3050048646 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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In der aktuellen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschung ist eine Hinwendung zu vergleichenden Fragestellungen zu verzeichnen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird ein historischer "Zufall" aus der frühmittelalterlichen Geschichte in den Blick genommen: Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts wechselten sowohl im Frankenreich als auch im islamischen Kalifat die Herrscherdynastien, Merowinger und Umayyaden wurden nahezu zeitgleich durch Karolinger bzw. Abbasiden ersetzt. Welche Argumente wurden dabei von den Usurpatoren benutzt, welche Strategien verfolgt, um den Untertanen, namentlich den Angehörigen der Eliten, die Rechtmäßigkeit der eigenen Machtausübung schlüssig plausibel zu machen? Während die Abbasiden behaupteten, als Verwandte des verstorbenen Propheten Mohammed über ein spezielles, erbliches Charisma zu verfügen, das ihnen den Zugang zu einem unvergleichlichen, islamisch begründeten Herrschaftswissen eröffne, konstruierten die Karolinger mit Hilfe der Kirche, namentlich des römischen Papsttums, ein besonderes Amtscharisma, mit dessen Hilfe sie sich als Exponenten eines verchristlichten Herrschertums und als geistliche Verwandte des Nachfolgers des heiligen Petrus inszenierten. Trotz aller Unterschiede versuchten beide Dynastien, sich als Exponenten eines sakral konnotierten Herrschertums zu etablieren. Die konkreten Spielräume, die sich den politischen Akteuren eröffneten, hingen jedoch entscheidend von den historischen Rahmenbedingungen ab, namentlich vom jeweiligen Stadium der religiösen Traditionsbildung und den vorherrschenden religiös-kulturellen Paradigmen zur Vergangenheitsrezeption. Untersucht werden erb- und amtscharismatische Konzeptualisierungen der Herrschaft, Fragen der Rekrutierung von Eliten sowie Probleme der Instrumentalisierung und Transformation religiöser Vorstellungen zum Zweck der Integration politischer Gemeinwesen. Die Arbeit unternimmt eine umfassende Kontextualisierung zweier "Ereignisse" der politischen Geschichte, wobei sie Fragestellungen der Religions-, Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte aufgreift und funktionale Äquivalente in den beiden untersuchten religiös-politischen Systemen aufzeigt. Das Instrumentarium des Vergleichs ist wesentlich von den Kategorien Max Webers und Pierre Bourdieus inspiriert, wobei der methodische Ansatz des Vergleichs unter Aufnahme von Anregungen der neueren Globalgeschichte weiterentwickelt wird. Durch die Analyse zweier komplementärer Phänomene aus der christlich-lateinischen sowie der arabisch-islamischen Geschichte leistet die Arbeit einen Beitrag zur Konzeptualisierung einer politischen Kulturgeschichte in der Vormoderne. Die theoriegeleitete, komparative und problemorientierte Untersuchung macht Methoden und Konzepte der Historischen Komparatistik für die Frühmittelalterforschung fruchtbar und unterstützt auf diese Weise die geschichtswissenschaftliche und mediävistische Theoriebildung.


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Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9048554039 9463728759 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, etc., but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely house. These ruling houses have been overlooked in studies about state formation. What's more, when discussing such dynasties, the vertical chronological perspective (grandfather-father-son) is all dominating, for instance in the focus on dynastic continuity, dynastic culture and representation, and the like. This collection of essays highlights the horizontal perspective (ruler, all children, siblings, cousins), in asking how the members of a princely family acted as a power network. The quest is to develop an understanding how this family network interplayed with other factors in the state formation process. This volume brings together existing knowledge of the topic with the aim of exchanging insights and furthering knowledge.

Near Eastern royalty and Rome, 100-30 BC
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ISBN: 0802026826 1282011510 1442677597 9786612011511 9780802026828 Year: 1990 Volume: 24 24 Publisher: Toronto, Ont : University of Toronto Press,


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Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat
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ISBN: 9004284451 9789004284456 9004250719 9789004250710 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden

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In Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat , Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras, and Yādavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.


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A genealogy of dissent : The progeny of fallen royals in Chosŏn Korea
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ISBN: 1503607232 9781503607231 9781503602083 1503602087 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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"In late Chosŏn when most Kaesŏng Wangs were detached from officialdom, the throne repeatedly articulated its desire to better honor the legacies of Koryŏ, human and material. Chapter 4 highlights how the court took stock of the state of Koryŏ royal tombs, other physical remains of Koryŏ, and the Kaesŏng Wang themselves--all while the position of ritual heir devolved to essentially that of Sungŭijŏn superintendent. As the late-Chosŏn elite as a whole became increasingly removed from officialdom and based their aristocratic status solely on descent, the Kaesŏng Wang published their first-ever comprehensive genealogy in 1798."--


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Dynasties : a global history of power, 1300-1800
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ISBN: 1316435040 1107447550 1316430073 1107060680 1107637589 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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For thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence of women on the throne. From European, African, Mughal, Ming-Qing and Safavid dynasties to the Ottoman Empire, Tokugawa Japan and Chosŏn Korea, he reveals the tension between the ideals of kingship and the lives of actual rulers, the rich variety of arrangements for succession, the households or courts which catered to rulers' daily needs, and the relationship between the court and the territories under its control. The book integrates numerous African examples, sets dynasties within longer-term developments such as the rise of the state, and examines whether the tensions inherent in dynastic power led inexorably to cycles of ascent and decline.


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Unions and divisions : new forms of rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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ISBN: 9781032057507 9781032057521 9781003199007 Year: 2023 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe, Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview. In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the pre-modern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation - even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respective components. The twenty-four essays, ranging in scope from Scandinavia to Iberia, from England and France to Central and Eastern Europe, examine whether the respective unions were the result of careful planning and deliberations in the face of a long-foreseen succession crisis or whether they emerged from dynamic developments that were largely reactive and dependent upon various random factors and circumstances. Each union is assessed to provide an understanding, for students and researchers, of the political and social forces involved in the respective countries and investigates how the unions were reflected in contemporary literature (pamphlets, memoranda, chronicles, diaries etc.), propaganda and in legal and historical discourses. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the history of monarchy, political history and social and cultural history in premodern Europe.

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