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
This behaviour is even more mystifying when you’ve got some foreigner foisted on you as unelected head of state. Follow some republican (as in anti-monarchy) twitter accounts for a bit of balance. Try
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This is in relation to medieval studies. Also I don’t follow anyone who says this stuff. I am critiquing my field.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Fair enough. I like to read about history but I’m not formally educated in it beyond high school. Serious Q tho, do you think there is any link between the behaviour you are criticising, and the fawning attitude of some towards extant monarchies?
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Yes I do. I think it’s all part of the same mentality. But the people who study it, who study the mechanisms behind why royalty works to fool the populace, I think they should know better. Instead they feed into it further.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
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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Replying to @ParanoidAdnoid
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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So there are some good books on early medieval Ireland. A classic is F.J. Byrne's Irish Kings and High Kings. A more recent book I recommend is B Jaski's Early Irish Kingship and Succession. For Britain, less has been written recently on kingship for the early medieval period.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
For Wales, Wendy Davies I believe has written the most. For England, a scholar I go back to often is Janet Nelson, but she looks at inauguration rites. Chaney and Wallace-Hadrill looked at kingship in England but their books are pretty dated now.
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For Scotland, the recent publication The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce by Noble and Evans is excellent. For Gaelic Scotland and Dal Riata, there is John Bannerman's long list of publications. I also rec Alfred P. Smyth and Katherine Forsyth.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Thank you! That looks great. I’ll have to see what eBooks I can get from libraries.
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