Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe

Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe edited by Francis K.H. So.

This collection conceptualizes the question of rulership in past centuries, incorporating such diverse disciplines as archaeology, art history, history, literature and psychoanalysis to illustrate how kings and queens ruled in Europe from the antiquity to early modern times. It discusses forms of ki...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: So, Francis K.H (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Europe—History—1492-.
World politics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • “Live like a King”—Monument of Philopappus and the Continuity of Client-King
  • Dreams of Kings in the Liber Thesauri Occulti of Pascalis Romanus
  • The Jewel for the Crown: Reconsidering Female Kingship and Queenship in the Galfridian Historiography
  • King Arthur: Leadership Masculinity and Homosocial Manhood
  • Innocent and Simple: The Making of Henry VI’s Kingship in Fifteenth Century England
  • Mending People’s Broken Hearts: the Fashioning of Rulership in John Ford’s The Broken Heart
  • Henrietta Maria as a Mediatrix of French Court Culture: A Reconsideration of the Decorations in the Queen’s House
  • Royalty and Divinity in Katherine Philips’s Poems
  • Private and Public: Rulers, Kings and Tyrants in Plato, Aristotle, John of Salisbury, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
  • Tobias Smollett’s Literary Redefinition of Kingship for the Eighteenth Century.

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