Murder and Monarchy

This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of regicide in Britain and Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800 (1300-1800). Using case studies of physical assaults on kings and on members of royal families, major changes and continuities in the meaning and nature of monarchy across periods and societies are brought to light. The volume ranges from Gothic kingship to the transformation of monarchy within the emerging modern constitutional context of the American and French Revolutions. The introduction and the contributions of fifteen leading senior scholars from England, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and Germany provide cutting edge research on the changing relationship between monarchy and society in medieval and early modern Europe.

'This thought-provoking volume ranges far beyond regicide to encompass deposition, and, especially in Robert von Friedeburg's impressively learned introduction, the larger context of political thought, including the notion of citizenship, the relationship of state and monarchy, and the desire to enforce government accountability.' - Ralph Houlbrooke, University of Reading, Mortality

Autorentext
LUCIEN BELY Professor of Modern History, Sorbonne, Paris, France WIM BLOCKMANS Professor of Medieval History, Leiden University, the Netherlands NEITHARD BULST Professor of Medieval History, University of Bielefeld, Germany GLENN BURGESS Professor of History, University of Hull, UK J. H. BURNS Professor Emeritus of the History of Political Thought, University of London, UK CHRISTINE CARPENTER Reader in Medieval English History, University of Cambridge, UK CONAL CONDREN Scientia Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Australia JEAN PHILIPPE GENET Professor of History, Sorbonne, Paris, France MARK GREENGRASS Professor of History, University of Sheffield, UK JOCELYN HILLGARTH Fellow of the British Academy, UK DAVID LOADES Director of the British Academy Foxe Project and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales, UK JOHN MORRILL Professor of British and Irish History, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK VOLKER SELLIN Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Heidelberg, Germany KLAUS ZERNACK Professor Emeritus of Central and East-European History, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Inhalt
PART I: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS Introduction; R.Von Friedeburg The Office of Rule and the Rhetorics of Tyrannicide in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; C.Condren PART II: MEDIEVAL KINGS AND THE MAKING OF MONARCHY Murder and Monarchy in the Visigothic Kingdoms; J.Hillgarth Murdering the Anointed; J.P.Genet PART III: REX INUTILIS: THE DEFENCE OF MONARCHY AGAINST ITS KINGS IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE Resisting and Deposing Kings in England in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; C.Carpenter France in the 15th Century; N.Bulst Limitations to Monarchical Power; W.Blockmans PART IV: 'NEW MONARCHY - NEW MONARCHS?' THE PUNISHMENT OF TYRANTS, HERETICS AND TRAITORS 'Pro me si mereor in me': Kingship and Tyranny in Scotland, 1437-1587; J.H.Burns The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; D.Loades The French Monarchy and the Assassination of Henry III; M.Greengrass PART V: RELGIOUS TURMOIL AND THE DEFENCE OF ORDER BY MONARCHICAL MEANS Murder and Monarchy in France; L.Bely Regicide: The Execution of Charles I and English Political Thought; G.Burgess PART VI: THE DAWN OF EARLY MODERN MONARCHY Medieval and Early Modern Constitutionalism and Autocracy: Monarchy in Sweden and Russia and the Eighteenth Century Regicides; K.Zernack The Breakdown of the Rule of Law: A Comparative View of the Depositions of George III, Louis XVI and Napoleon I; V.Sellin PART VII: VISIONS OF MONARCHY, OLD AND NEW Conclusion; J.Morrill Index