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This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate trends and patterns in how different societies chose to commemorate and remember their rulers in a variety of mediums. Contributions highlight several lesser known rulers, alongside more famous ones such as Henry VIII of England, to develop a deeper understanding of how memory and monarchy functioned when drawn together. Memorialising Premodern Monarchs brings to the fore the importance of memory and memorialisation when considering the legacies and records of past rulers and their societies, and allows a deeper reflection on how these rulers live on through the historical record and popular culture.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Memorialisation of Monarchs in an International Context.- Part I: Representations of Monarchs in Art and Architecture.- Chapter 2: "The Whole Stature of a Goodly Man and a Large Horse": Memorialising Henry VIII's Manly, Knightly and Warrior Status.- Chapter 3: Papal Commemoration, 1300-1700: Institutional Memory and Dynasticism.- Chapter 4: Island Queens: Appropriated Portraits of Royal Samoan Women.- Chapter 5: King Sigismund III Vasa's Column in Warsaw: A Memorial in Honour of the King, A Representation of Power, and a Commemoration of the Father.- Part II: Personal or Perfunctory? Philippa of Hainault's Legacy Through Religious Patronage and St Katharine's by the Tower.- Chapter 6: The Heroes Who Turned Into Stones and Songs: The Memory of the Monarch Reflected in the Old Tamil Cankam Literature.- Chapter 7: Commemoration in Literature and Popular Media.- Chapter 8: Memories and Memorials of Literature and Art at the Turn of the First Millennium.- Chapter 9: Memory and Kingship in the Manuscripts of Matthew Paris.- Chapter 10: Maria Theresia and Catherine II: The Bodies of a Female Ruler in Propaganda, Criticism, and Retrospect.- Chapter 11: Mighty Lady and True Husband: Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in Norwegian Memory.- Chapter 12: Oh to be a Queen: Representations of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoulême, Two Scandalous Queens, in Popular Fiction.- Chapter 13: From "She-Wolf" to "Badass": Remembering Isabella of France in Modern Culture.
About the author
Gabrielle Storey is a historian of Angevin queenship, gender, and sexuality, with a specialism in co-rulership. She completed her doctorate at the University of Winchester, UK. She is currently working on a biography of Berengaria of Navarre, and a monograph on Angevin co-rulership. She is the founder of
Team Queens, a digital global queenship project.
