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, 2019 This chapter on the relationship between kingship and nobility focuses on the kingdoms of Castile-Leon and Sweden during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Bergqvist, Kim,
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Moderate is the New Black: Shifts and Intersections in Saudi Arabia's Domestic and Foreign Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is undergoing a period of intense changes. Its current stage of transformation has been led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) since 2015, seeking to turn the Kingdom into a story of successful governance and one of the leading powers in the Middle East. In hardly understood yet very consequential ways, KSA's
Javier Bordón +1 more
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Cérémonies monarchiques et musique à la cour de Charles Quint
E-Spania, 2016 The modern period sees developing and enriching the protocol surrounding the ceremonies of a monarch’s reign. The choice of a study dedicated to Charles V (1500-1558) is understandable not only by his exceptional destiny as the first Habsburg on the ...
Louise Audubert
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract How did a British colony, not supplied with coin and with no tax base, establish itself a world away from London? Drawing on the Historical Records of Australia and British parliamentary Appropriation Acts from 1787 to 1832, this paper shows that Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, spent by issuing promises to pay against the ...
Matthew Crocker
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
American 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
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Programas ideológicos a través de la imagem: algunos ejemplos de la Edad Media
Medievalista, 2011 The iconography of Jacques the Conqueror is the result of ideological programs originated by official institutions or by the monarchy itself. It implies a positive judgement of the king’s profile, that short after his mourned death, was given a legendary
Marta Serrano Coll
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
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Royal Bronze : Monarchy and Monuments in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sweden
, 2009 Rodell, Magnus,
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Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de VersaillesRecent scholarship has emphasized the extent to which royal power depended on monarch’s ability to collaborate with other authorities and intermediary bodies, as well as their ability to reconcile themselves with the various social groups that dominated ...
Damien Tricoire
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