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
Am I wrong in thinking that maybe it’s because we simply know so much about the personal lives of these rulers? And that the complexity that comes from their stories contrasts with what most perceive as dull/boring/vague lives of commoners?
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Replying to @ABandedKrait
I’m not talking about interest in studying these rulers, which makes sense in that yes most info we have is on nobility. But it’s cannot be the full reason to put them on a pedestal. That is because people still want to buy into the mystique of royalty I think.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ABandedKrait
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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