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Understanding the Mechanisms of Monarchy

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter looks at monarchy through a wide-reaching theoretical lens, examining the key elements which underpin monarchy across all eras, cultural, and geographical contexts.
Woodacre, Elena, Elena Woodacre
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Monarchy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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Restaging the Monarchy

open access: yes, 2017
Upon the Restoration, Charles II and his court began deliberate efforts to reintroduce the language and symbols of monarchy, some of which, including the crowns and royal jewels and art collection, had been physically destroyed or sold off by Parliament.
Margaret J. M. Ezell
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Monarchy: State and Nation

open access: yes, 2018
This is the text of a talk delivered at City, University of London as part of their Constitutional Law Seminar Series for 2017-18. The talk considers the origins of the ‘Modern Monarchy’ which emerged in the response of the monarchy to the difficult ...
Prescott, Craig
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P4s Are Either Unhelpful or Unnecessary. Proposing a Better AI‐Powered Solution to Predict Patients' Preferences

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4) has been proposed as an AI tool to aid surrogate decision‐making when incapacitated patients lack advance directives. Unlike population‐level Patient Preference Predictors (PPPs), which infer preferences from demographic correlations, P4s fine‐tune large language models (LLMs) on a patient's ...
Beatrice Marchegiani
wiley   +1 more source

Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Contradictions of Sovereignty

open access: yesJournal of Marlowe Studies
This essay argues that Marlowe's portrait of monarchy in Dido, Queene of Carthage both invites but ultimately defeats an attempt to read it directly through contemporary ideological contexts.
Edward Paleit
doaj   +1 more source

THE CONCEPT OF STATE ADMINISTRATION BY N. MACHIAVELLI

open access: yesВестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2017
The article shows the key types of state structure in countries of the Ancient world and Medieval Europe, describes their advantages and disadvantages and investigates the round of different forms of state power. Frequent state transformations could lead
Alexander V. Butov
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‘United Monarchy’ and ‘Divided Monarchy’ Personal Names Compared [Elektronisk resurs]

open access: yes, 2019
This study reviews characteristics of biblical personal names of the ‘United Monarchy’, and compares them with those of the ‘Divided Monarchy’. The comparison reveals that, while ‘Divided Monarchy’ names have similar characteristics in both Kings and ...
Golub, Mitka R.,
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