Blood Royal Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe Bartlett Hardback 9781108490672

Blood Royal Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe Bartlett Hardback 9781108490672

Blood Royal\n\nDynastic Politics in Medieval Europe\n\nAn engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.\n\nRobert Bartlett (Author)\n\n9781108490672, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 9 July 2020\n\n672 pages\n23.5 x 15.8 x 4.4 cm, 1.1 kg\n\n'Blood Royal bears all the hallmarks of a classic.' Levi Roach, Literary Review\n\nThroughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to the throne? How did dynasties use names, the numbering of rulers and the visual display of heraldry to express their identity? And why did some royal families survive and thrive, while others did not? Drawing]

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