Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

Edited by Jeroen Deploige and Gita Deneckere

Mystifying the Monarch

Studies on Discourse, Power, and History

296 pages,  6-1/8 x 9-1/4  © 2006

Paper $45.00

ISBN: 9789053567678   Published April 2007
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The power of monarchs has traditionally been as much symbolic as actual, rooted in popular imagery of sovereignty, divinity, and authority. In Mystifying the Monarch, a distinguished group of contributors explores the changing nature of that imagery—and its political and social effects—in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that, rather than a linear progression where perceptions of rulers moved inexorably from the sacred to the banal, in reality the history of monarchy has been one of constant tension between mystification and demystification.

Subjects

• History: General History

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