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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And any historians who actually think that the general populace led boring lives or whatever...well they would be wrong to think that. But classism in common amongst scholars, it ends up as a self-fulfilling thing. We study rulers because they are more “exciting”.
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And in turn we then don’t consider the average person, and thus perpetuate the idea they are not worth studying.
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Ah, right. I certainly agree with all of the above. I also think part of it is the innate(?) human desire to rule. Maybe many people think they'd have a fun conversation w/ a historical ruler because these rulers lived out our own fantasies. Of course, they didn't really, but...
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Don’t think that it’s innate tbh. Once I started studying kingship I swung even harder left than I already was (which was pretty far).
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