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Royal Childhood and Child Kingship

Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050-1262

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvEmily Joan Ward

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Refining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption that kingship equated to adult power. Children's participation and political assent could be important facets of the day-to-day activities of rule, as this study shows through an examination of royal charters, oaths to young boys, cross-kingdom diplomacy and coronation. The first comparative and thematic study of child rulership in this period, Ward analyses eight case studies across northwestern Europe from c.1050 to c.1250. The book stresses innovations and adaptations in royal government, questions the exaggeration of political disorder under a boy king, and suggests a ruler's childhood posed far less of a challenge than their adolescence and youth. Uniting social, cultural and political historical methodologies, Ward unveils how wider societal changes between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries altered children's lived experiences of royal rule and modified how people thought about child kingship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-26
Mått150 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Antal sidor360
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108978842

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1. Royal childhood and child kingship: An introduction; Part I. Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Models and History: 2. Children and kingship in the early and central Middle Ages; 3. Woe to thee, O land? Models of child kingship; Part II. Royal Childhood: Preparation for the Throne: 4. Familial education: Preparing boys to be kings; 5. Loyalty, diplomacy and (co-)kingship: Preparing political communities; 6. The royal deathbed: Preparing for child kingship; Part III. Child Kingship: Guardianship and Royal Rule: 7. Guardianship, regency and legality; 8. Adapting and collaborating: Child kingship and royal rule; 9. Feasting princes? Violence, conflict and child kingship; 10. Entering adolescence: Knighting, seals and royal maturity; Conclusion: Re-thinking child kingship, c. 1050–1262.

'Ward has undoubtedly already achieved an enormous amount with her book: she has worked out her subject in a stringent manner, examined a wealth of material and prepared it in an original way, compiled numerous observations worth considering and created various starting points for a critical examination of the subject. In this respect, her contribution to research can undoubtedly be described as successful.' Clara Harder, Sehepunkte (from German)