Emily Joan Ward

Royal Childhood and Child Kingship (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first comparative study of royal childhood and child kingship, revealing the fundamental role they played in medieval rulership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108968799
• Artikelnr.: 70909570

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.