Table of Contents[-]Acknowledgements[-]Introduction: The Monarchy: A Crossroads of Trajectories[-]Monarchy's Medieval Monologism?[-] 1 How Christian Was the Sacralization of Monarchy in Western Europe (Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries)?[-] 2 Political Assassination and Sanctification. Transforming Discursive Customs after the Murder of the Flemish Count Charles the Good (1127)[-] 3 'Et le prince respondit de par sa bouche.' Monarchal Speech Habits in Late Medieval Europe[-] 4 Ideal Kingship against Oppressive Monarchy. Discourses and Practices of Royal Imposture at the Close of the Middle Ages[-]Monarchy and the Emergence of the Public Sphere[-] 5 The Art of Saying 'No'. Premonitions of Foucault's 'Governmentality' in �tienne de La Bo�tie's Discours de la servitude volontaire J�rgen Pieters and Alexander Roose[-] 6 Sacralization and Demystification. The Publicization of Monarchy in Early Modern England[-] 7 King for a Day. Games of Inversion, Representation, and Appropriation in Ancient Regime Europe[-] 8 Fiction, Kingship, and the Politics of Character in Eighteenth-Century France[-]Popular Monarchy in the Age of Mass Media[-] 9 Staging Modern Monarchs. Royalty at the World Exhibitions of 1851 and 1867[-] 10 The Emperor's New Clothes. The Reappearance of the Performing Monarchy in Europe, c. 1870-1914[-] 11 Cannadine, Twenty Years on. Monarchy and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Netherlands[-] 12 The Impossible Neutrality of the Speech from the Throne. A Ritual between National Unity and Political Dispute. Belgium, 1831-1918[-] 13 Public Transcripts of Royalism. Pauper Letters to the Belgian Royal Family (1880-1940)[-]Notes[-]Notes on Contributors[-]List of Illustrations[-]Index
Gita Deneckere is associate professor of modern history at Ghent University. Jeroen Deploige is associate professor of medieval cultural history at Ghent University.
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