| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 660 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Access restrictions |
Access limited to UNC Chapel Hill-authenticated users. Unlimited simultaneous users |
| 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. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 17, 2020). |
| Local note |
Content provider: Cambridge University Press. |
| In |
Cambridge University Press ebooks (online collection). 2020
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OCLC WorldShare Collection Manager managed collection. wcmCombined
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| Other form |
Print version: Bartlett, Robert, 1950- Blood royal Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| WorldCat no. |
1141032217wcmCUP |
| ISBN |
1108854559 electronic book |
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9781108854559 electronic book |
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9781108490672 hardcover |
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