In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the peo

Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were v

Bringing together a variety of evidence, such as princely correspondence, travelogues, financial accounts, chronicles, chivalric or Renaissance poems, this book

A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monar

The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy f