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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Choosing a bride -- Waiting for sons to be born -- Fathers and sons -- Female sovereigns -- Mistresses and bastards -- Family dynamics family dynamics family dynamics -- Royal mortality -- Names and numbering -- Saints, images, heraldry, family trees -- Responses to dynastic uncertainty : prophecy and astrology -- Pretenders and returners : dynastic imposters in the Middle Ages -- New families and new kingdoms -- Dynasties and the non-dynastic world. |
| Summary |
"The subject of this book is the family politics of royal and imperial dynasties in Latin Christendom and Byzantium in the period 500-1500. Family politics means competition and cooperation within the ruling family, shaped at every point by the human life-cycle of birth, marriage and death, and also by ideas of what a dynasty was. Hence the two parts of the book, the life-cycle and a sense of dynasty. The main dynasties are listed in Appendix A. A full bibliography on this subject would fill a library but references have been given for all direct quotations and for facts other than those easily accessible A few directly relevant titles have also been cited"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subjects (Topics) |
Royal houses -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Kings and rulers, Medieval.
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Monarchy -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Kinship -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History.
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| Subjects (Places) |
Europe -- Politics and government -- 476-1492.
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| Bib utility control no. |
zorion b484770 |
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