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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Do you accept that one can be in favour of the monarchy without ‘fawning’ on it, incidentally?
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I think that monarchy as a system shouldn’t exist. So anyone in favour of it I fundamentally disagree with anyway.
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Ah, I see your point (a good one) more clearly now. Thanks. Off topic - are there any books in your field you would recommend to the general reader? I think the only book on my shelves focussing on that period is https://www.amazon.com/age-chivalry-story-England/dp/B0007J4L5O …. I assume this is not the latest thinking!
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Depends what you want. My field is a large one, and I occupy a small corner. I look at the ideology of kingship and to a lesser extent religion as it relates to kingship, and wider discussions of culture history. I work specifically on early medieval Britain and Ireland.
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