Memorialising premodern monarchs : medias of commemoration and remembrance

Memorialising premodern monarchs : medias of commemoration and remembrance / Gabrielle Storey, editor.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate trends and patterns in how dif...

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Other Authors: Storey, Gabrielle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Queenship and power.
Subjects:
Collective memory.
Kings and rulers > Anniversaries, etc.
Memorialization.
commemorations (events)
Collective memory
Memorialization
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: The Memorialisation of Monarchs in an International Context
  • Part I: Representations of Monarchs in Art and Architecture
  • Chapter 2: "The Whole Stature of a Goodly Man and a Large Horse" : Memorialising Henry VIIIs Manly, Knightly and Warrior Status
  • Chapter 3: Papal Commemoration, 13001700: Institutional Memory and Dynasticism
  • Chapter 4: Island Queens: Appropriated Portraits of Royal Samoan Women
  • Chapter 5: King Sigismund III Vasas Column in Warsaw: A Memorial in Honour of the King, A Representation of Power, and a Commemoration of the Father
  • Part II: Personal or Perfunctory? Philippa of Hainaults Legacy Through Religious Patronage and St Katharines by the Tower
  • Chapter 6: The Heroes Who Turned Into Stones and Songs: The Memory of the Monarch Reflected in the Old Tamil Cankam Literature
  • Chapter 7: Commemoration in Literature and Popular Media
  • Chapter 8: Memories and Memorials of Literature and Art at the Turn of the First Millennium
  • Chapter 9: Memory and Kingship in the Manuscripts of Matthew Paris
  • Chapter 10: Maria Theresia and Catherine II: The Bodies of a Female Ruler in Propaganda, Criticism, and Retrospect
  • Chapter 11: Mighty Lady and True Husband: Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in Norwegian Memory
  • Chapter 12: Oh to be a Queen: Representations of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angouleme, Two Scandalous Queens, in Popular Fiction
  • Chapter 13: From "She-Wolf" to "Badass" : Remembering Isabella of France in Modern Culture.

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