Memorialising Premodern Monarchs: Medias of Commemoration and Remembrance [Hardcover]

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.

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 VIIIs Manly, Knightly and Warrior Status.- Chapter 3: Papal Commemoration, 13001700: Institutional Memory and Dynasticism.- Chapter 4: Island Queens: Appropriated Portraits of Royal Samoan Women.- Chapter 5: King Sigismund III Vasas 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 Hainaults Legacy Through Religious Patronage and St Katharines 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.- Chal£Ö