Royal childhood and child kingship : boy kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050-1262 / Emily Joan Ward.
| Author/creator | Ward, Emily Joan author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022. |
| Copyright Date | cu2022 |
| Description | xxii, 333 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 120. ^A21592 |
| Contents | 1. Royal childhood and child kingship: an introduction -- Part I. Royal childhood and 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 educations: 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: rethinking child kingship, c. 1050-1262. |
| Abstract | 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 coronations. The first comparative and thematic study of child rulership in this period, War analyses eight case studies across north-western 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--back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-319) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version : Ward, Emily Joan. Royal childhood and child kingship. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108974516 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781108838375 |
| ISBN | 1108838375 (hbk.) |
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