As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
I think, to some extent, it is because we (collectively) have information about them and their lives. As a result, books, movies get written! Sure, I can stan another figure, but I just won’t have as many details about them.
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Replying to @bloodredrache @HalstedMedieval
I’m not really wondering why people study them. I wonder why people stan them on social media like they are celebrities. And just because the historical records are skewed...I don’t think that it should follow that we stan them.
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I mean, modern celebrities are also generally not a great idea, discussions about them tend not to be nuanced it’s just much of a muchness I think
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Yeah again I have said several times over we shouldn’t stan anyone.
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