Robert Bartlett (Scotland University of St Andrews)

Blood Royal

Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal and imperial dynasties. From royal marriages and the birth of sons, to female sovereigns, mistresses and wicked uncles, Robert Bartlett casts fresh light on an essential feature of the medieval world.

Produktdetails

• The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1100g
• ISBN-13: 9781108490672
• ISBN-10: 1108490670
• Artikelnr.: 58864121

Autorenporträt

Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350 (1993), which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History in 1994, and Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? (2015). He is well-known as the writer and presenter of several BBC documentary series including 'Inside the Medieval Mind' (2008), 'The Normans' (2010), and 'The Plantagenets' (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Royal Families; Part I. The Life Cycle: 1. Choosing a bride; 2. Waiting for sons to be born; 3. Fathers and sons; 4. Female sovereigns; 5. Mistresses and bastards; 6. Family dynamics; 7. Royal mortality; Part II. A Sense of Dynasty: 8. Names and numbering; 9. Saints, images, heraldry, family trees; 10. Responses to dynastic uncertainty: prophecy and astrology; 11. Pretenders and returners: dynastic imposters in the Middle Ages; 12. New families and new kingdoms; 13. Dynasties and the non-dynastic world; Conclusion; Appendices.

Rezensionen

'Blood Royal is a tour de force. In dynastic politics, Bartlett has found a huge subject that has yet been little explored. He has researched it magisterially, ranging Europe-wide across vast numbers of sources in classical and vernacular European languages.' Janet L. Nelson, Author of King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne