| Series |
The James Lydon lectures in medieval history and culture
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| Contents |
Choosing a bride -- Waiting for sons to be born -- Fathers and sons -- Female sovereigns -- Mistresses and bastards -- Family dynamics family dynamics family dynamics -- Royal mortality -- Names and numbering -- Saints, images, heraldry, family trees -- Responses to dynastic uncertainty : prophecy and astrology -- Pretenders and returners : dynastic imposters in the Middle Ages -- New families and new kingdoms -- Dynasties and the non-dynastic world. |
| Abstract |
"The subject of this book is the family politics of royal and imperial dynasties in Latin Christendom and Byzantium in the period 500-1500. Family politics means competition and cooperation within the ruling family, shaped at every point by the human life-cycle of birth, marriage and death, and also by ideas of what a dynasty was. Hence the two parts of the book, the life-cycle and a sense of dynasty. The main dynasties are listed in Appendix A. A full bibliography on this subject would fill a library but references have been given for all direct quotations and for facts other than those easily accessible A few directly relevant titles have also been cited"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-606) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Bartlett, Robert, 1950- Blood royal Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 9781108854559 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019039298 |
| ISBN | 9781108490672 |
| ISBN | 1108490670 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
