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Refining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption that kingship equated to adult power. Children's participation and political assent could be important facets of the day-to-day activities of rule, as this study shows through an examination of royal charters, oaths to young boys, cross-kingdom diplomacy and coronation. The first comparative and thematic study of child rulership in this period, Ward analyses eight case studies across northwestern Europe from c.1050 to c.1250. The book stresses innovations and adaptations in royal government, questions the exaggeration of political disorder under a boy king, and suggests a ruler's childhood posed far less of a challenge than their adolescence and youth. Uniting social, cultural and political historical methodologies, Ward unveils how wider societal changes between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries altered children's lived experiences of royal rule and modified how people thought about child kingship.

Europe --- Child kings and rulers --- Kings and rulers, Medieval --- History --- Politics and government --- Kings and rulers --- Succession.

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"For thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence of women on the throne. From European, African, Mughal, Ming-Qing and Safavid dynasties to the Ottoman Empire, Tokugawa Japan and Chosen Korea, he reveals the tension between the ideals of kingship and the lives of actual rulers, the rich variety of arrangements for succession, the households or courts which catered to rulers' daily needs, and the relationship between the court and the territories under its control. The book integrates numerous African examples, sets dynasties within longer-term developments such as the rise of the state, and examines whether the tensions inherent in dynastic power led inexorably to cycles of ascent and decline"-- "Dynasty persists into the modern world, but it has lost much of its aura during recent centuries. With the emergence of industrialised and urbanised societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, alternative forms of power have become more prominent. Kingship evolved at a point where societies moved beyond kinship as the key principle of social organisation; it retreated in modern urban and industrial society. Kinship and family, however, remain a force to be reckoned with. Personalised and enduring forms of leadership in politics and in business tend to acquire semi-dynastic traits even in the contemporary world. In autocratic states, the power of modern-day dynasts extends far beyond anything their predecessors could have imagined"--

Kings and rulers, Medieval. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Royal houses --- Kinship --- History. --- Political aspects --- World history --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499

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Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe, Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview. In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the pre-modern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation - even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respective components. The twenty-four essays, ranging in scope from Scandinavia to Iberia, from England and France to Central and Eastern Europe, examine whether the respective unions were the result of careful planning and deliberations in the face of a long-foreseen succession crisis or whether they emerged from dynamic developments that were largely reactive and dependent upon various random factors and circumstances. Each union is assessed to provide an understanding, for students and researchers, of the political and social forces involved in the respective countries and investigates how the unions were reflected in contemporary literature (pamphlets, memoranda, chronicles, diaries etc.), propaganda and in legal and historical discourses. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the history of monarchy, political history and social and cultural history in premodern Europe.

Royal houses --- Monarchy --- Kings and rulers, Medieval. --- History --- Europe --- Kings and rulers --- History. --- Kings and rulers, Medieval --- Medieval kings and rulers --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Dynasties (Royal houses) --- Royal families --- Royalty --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599

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History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilisation médiévale --- Classical influences --- Influence ancienne --- Bible --- Influence --- Medieval civilization --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Kings and rulers, Medieval. --- Middle Ages. --- 930.85.42 --- Kings and rulers, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Medieval kings and rulers --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- History --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Church history --- -Intellectual life. --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Civilisation médiévale --- Intellectual life. --- Medieval civilization.

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History of Southern Europe --- anno 1200-1499 --- Mediterranean --- Beschaving [Middeleeuwse ] --- Civilisation médiévale --- Civilization [Medieval ] --- Civilization [Medieval ]--History --- Europa--Beschaving--476-1492 --- Europe--Civilisation--476-1492 --- Europe--Civilization--476-1492 --- Medieval civilization --- Middeleeuwen--Beschaving --- Middeleeuwen--Cultuur --- Middeleeuwse beschaving --- Middeleeuwse cultuur --- Middle Ages--Civilization --- Moyen-Age--Civilisation --- Civilization, Medieval --- Kings and rulers, Medieval --- Royal houses --- Rois et souverains médiévaux --- Maisons royales --- Biography --- Biographies --- Western Mediterranean --- Méditerranée occidentale --- History, Military --- Histoire militaire --- 930 <262> --- 940.1 --- Geschiedenis van het Middellandse-Zeegebied --- Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) --- 940.1 Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) --- 930 <262> Geschiedenis van het Middellandse-Zeegebied --- Civilisation médiévale --- Rois et souverains médiévaux --- Méditerranée occidentale --- History [Military ] --- Kings and rulers [Medieval ] --- Normans --- Europe [Western ] --- History, Military.