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
100% behind this thread from my experience of early modern Twitter.
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Replying to @tomaashby @AdmiralHip
Certain monarchs have bizarre cult followings - & not just the usual suspects, i.e. the openly monarchist band of aristocrats, reactionaries, & confused romantics, among others, all over Charles Stuart ‘the Martyr’.
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Replying to @tomaashby @AdmiralHip
But also other Stuarts & Tudors, esp Elizabeth (not to mention other states). There are lots of ppl, & I’m not subtweeting anyone here, who are ideologically not monarchist & yet seem, despite their obv expertise, fan &/or stan, perhaps naively, in awkward, silly, & inappro ways.
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Replying to @tomaashby
Yeah, I see a lot of that in medieval studies. I think two of them got angry at me for saying what I said .
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Replying to @tomaashby
I figured I’d have some angry folks who don’t want to interrogate themselves. I held off on saying it for a long time but it really did need saying.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Yeah already dropped followers, oft happens when I bring up modern (as opposed to historic) anti-monarchist arguments. Unfortunately field is riddled with those that find it uncomfortable - even, lo & behold!, unseemly - to hear these things, even when put polite & tame.
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Yeah people don’t want to think about how they may have problematic views
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