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 is a peculiarly English syndrome, and it can't be unrelated to the continuing existence of the British monarchy. Modern French and German scholars (e.g.) are less likely to romanticize medieval monarchs, and instead put them in critical context; both countries are republics.
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Replying to @HREhistorian
True enough although I think white Canadians and Americans are wont to do it also.
2:09 PM - 7 Apr 2020
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