Emily Joan Ward (University of Edinburgh)

Royal Childhood and Child Kingship

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining aspects of boyhood, education, family, counsel and succession, Emily Joan Ward presents how fundamental children were to systems of political authority. The first comparative and thematic study of child rulership in this period, this book is for medievalists and those interested in childhood or dynastic succession.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 359
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781108978842
• ISBN-10: 1108978843
• Artikelnr.: 68801974

Autorenporträt

Emily Joan Ward is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She began her British Academy funded project on 'Adolescence and Belonging in Medieval Europe, c.1000¿c.1250' in her previous role at University College London. Royal Childhood and Child Kingship is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

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.