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Mystifying the monarch : studies on discourse, power, and history /
This immensely readable and informative study outlines the cultural history of the relations between royal imagery and royal authority.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the monarchy : a crossroads of trajectories
- How Christian was the sacralization of monarchy in Western Europe (twelfth-fifteenth centuries)?
- Political assassination and sanctification : transforming discursive customs after the murder of the Flemish count Charles the Good (1127)
- 'Et le prince respondit de par sa bouche' : monarchal speech habits in late medieval Europe
- Ideal kingship against oppressive monarchy : discourses and practices of royal imposture at the close of the Middle Ages
- The art of saying 'no' : premonitions of Foucault's 'governmentality' in Étienne de La Boétie's Discours de la servitude volontaire
- Sacralization and demystification : the publicization of monarchy in early modern England
- King for a day : games of inversion, representation, and appropriation in ancient regime Europe
- Fiction, kingship, and the politics of character in eighteenth-century France
- Staging modern monarchs : royalty at the world exhibitions of 1851 and 1867
- The emperor's new clothes : the reappearance of the performing monarchy in Europe, c. 1870-1914
- Cannadine, twenty years on : monarchy and political culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the Netherlands
- The impossible neutrality of the speech from the throne : a ritual between national unity and political dispute : Belgium, 1831-1918
- Public transcripts of royalism : pauper letters to the Belgian Royal Family (1880-1940).