Acknowledgements
Introduction - The Monarchy: A Crossroads of Trajectories
Jeroen Deploige and Gita Deneckere
Monarchy's Medieval Monologism?
1. How Christian Was the Sacralization of Monarchy in Western Europe
(Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries)?
Alain Boureau
2. Political assassination and Sanctification. Transforming the Discursive Customs
after the Murder of the Flemish Count Charles the Good (1127)
Jeroen Deploige
3. 'Et le prince respondit de par sa bouche.' Monarchal Speech Habits in Late
Medieval Europe
Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin
4. Ideal Kingship against Oppressive Monarchy. Discourses and Practices of
Royal Imposture at the Close of the Middle Ages
Gilles Lecuppre
Monarchy and the Emergence of the Public Sphere
5. The Art of Saying 'No'. Premonitions of Foucault's 'Governmentality' in Étienne
de La Boétie's Discours de la servitude volontaire
Jürgen Pieters and Alexander Roose
6. Sacralization and Demystification. The Publicization of Monarchy in Early
Modern England
Kevin Sharpe
7. King for a Day. Games of Inversion, Representation, and Appropriation in
Ancient Regime Europe
Marc Jacobs
8. Fiction, Kingship, and the Politics of Character in Eighteenth-Century France
Lisa Jane Graham
Popular Monarchy in the Age of Mass Media
9. Staging Modern Monarchs. Royalty at the World Exhibitions of 1851 and
1867
Maria Grever
10. The Emperor's New Clothes. The Reappearance of the Performing Monarchy
in Europe, c. 1870-1914
Jaap van Osta
11. Cannadine, Twenty Year on. Monarchy and Political Culture in Nineteenth-
Century Britain and the Netherlands
Henk te Velde
12. The Impossible Neutrality of the Speech from the Throne. A Ritual between
National Unity and Political Dispute. Belgium, 1831-1918
Gita Deneckere
13. Public Transcripts of Royalism. Pauper Letters to the Belgian Royal Family
(1880-1940)
Maarten Van Ginderachter
Notes
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
Index
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