Sarah Betts, V. Schutte, Brandy J. Jolliff Scott, Jessica Storoschuk, Aidan Jones, Carolyn Harris
{"title":"Studying Prince Philip: His Life and Legacies in Context","authors":"Sarah Betts, V. Schutte, Brandy J. Jolliff Scott, Jessica Storoschuk, Aidan Jones, Carolyn Harris","doi":"10.21039/rsj.372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.372","url":null,"abstract":"This cluster represents a new feature for the Royal Studies Journal, and an editorial attempt to place the life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) within various historical, thematic, and scholarly contexts current in royal studies. It showcases some recent and ongoing work in the field as well as suggesting new lines of research and will hopefully prove a valuable starting point for students and new scholarship on traditional royal studies themes, such as consorts or dynasties and more specifically modern and contemporary monarchy. As well as a brief editorial introduction, six mini essays are presented within this piece considering Philip’s life as topic of study within the following contexts: Valerie Schutte, “Driving the Monarchy: Prince Philip and Land Rover;” Brandy Jolliff Scott, “Prince Philip’s Legacy and Foreign Policy: Analyzing the Role of Constitutional Monarchy in World Politics;” Jessica Storoschuk, “‘We Don’t Come to Canada For Our Health:’” A Surprisingly Strong Relationship Between Prince Philip and Canada;” Aidan Jones, “Greece, The British Navy and an Earlier Duke of Edinburgh;” Carolyn Harris, “Prince Philip and the Last Imperial Family of Russia,” and Sarah Betts, “Prince Philip On Screen.” ERRATA: Please note the following correction to Harris' contribution--Prince Philip's birthday should be 10 June 1921, not 10 April.","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48559057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peebles and Scarlatta (eds.), Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: From Fille de France to Dowager Duchess (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)","authors":"Austin Collins","doi":"10.21039/rsj.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.362","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Kelly Digby Peebles and Gabriella Scarlatta, eds., Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: From Fille de France to Dowager Duchess (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43201286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing is Believing: The Ducal House of Lorraine and Visual Displays in the Projection of Royal Status","authors":"Jonathan W. Spangler","doi":"10.21039/rsj.214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.214","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the visual strategies employed in the early modern period by a dynasty ruling a smaller state, the Duchy of Lorraine, to survive in the face of expansion by larger neighbours (notably France). The central argument posits that in order to be treated as fully royal (and therefore with inherent rights to exist independently, as full members of the society of princes), princes like the dukes of Lorraine had to appear as royal in their visual representation. The article therefore looks at different examples of selfrepresentation produced by the dynasty over time, including genealogical treatises, coins, portraits, and printed material, in order to see how this was achieved and what symbols were used. What emerges is a sense that this strategy was more closely tied to dynasticism, not necessarily state-building, and while it can be said to have failed for the Duchy of Lorraine as a state, it proved successful, even beyond what had been imagined, for the dynasty itself. This idea repositions our conceptions of “sovereignty” in this period, to see it, at least in some cases, as a quality pertaining to dynasties rather than more rigidly to the states they governed. Their hereditary estates in Lorraine were lost in 1737 but the dynasty survived, as grand dukes of Tuscany, and was deemed worthy of transformation into a fully royal—even imperial—dynasty through marriage to the Habsburg heiress Maria Theresa and the election of Francis Stephen of Lorraine as Holy Roman Emperor in 1745.","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45847380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heyam, The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697: A Literary Transformation of History (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)","authors":"Seymour Phillips","doi":"10.21039/rsj.335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.335","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Kit Heyam, The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697: A Literary Transformation of History (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press: 2020).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49573074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Candidates for the Vacant Throne of Interwar Hungary: International Approaches to Finding a Resolution","authors":"Róbert Kerepeszki","doi":"10.21039/rsj.355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.355","url":null,"abstract":"After the resignation of Charles IV, a particular public law situation, the so-called “kingdom without a king,” came about in interwar Hungary, which persisted through the whole period. The “king question” that developed around taking the vacant throne aroused a keen interest not only in internal politics, but also abroad. The study gives a short account about who could emerge as a possible Hungarian king and why they could do so, and how the issue was presented to the international public. The author analyses the rumours, both in the press and in diplomatic documents, which are rather under-exploited as sources in historical research. The article first outlines the general socio-political situation in post-Great War Hungary and then shows how the problem of the “king question” divided Hungarian public life into several camps. It then, without claiming completeness, examines the motivations and realities of combinations for some of the individuals who most frequently appeared as candidates for king in the various rumours. In terms of the timing of the rumours, the study highlights the domestic and international events and circumstances in which interest in the issue of Hungary’s “kingless kingdom” was heightened in public discourse, and how such combinations influenced the image of contemporary Hungary. It also sheds light on the reasons that have prevented the kingdom issue from being settled. Finally, the author attempts to outline what the “ideal” new Hungarian king, acceptable both abroad and at home, should have been like under the given circumstances.","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46738019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rohr and Benz, Queenship and the Women of Westeros. Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)","authors":"G. Storey","doi":"10.21039/rsj.350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.350","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Zita Eva Rohr and Liza Benz, Queenship and the Women of Westeros. Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41569614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Koscak, Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence: Picturing Royal Subjects (Routledge, 2020)","authors":"Charlotte Kelly Rebecca Samways","doi":"10.21039/rsj.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.359","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Stephanie E. Koscak, Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence in Early Modern England: Picturing Royal Subjects (New York: Routledge, 2020).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47769452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schroder, ‘A Marvel to Behold’: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII, (The Boydell Press, 2020)","authors":"M. Hayward","doi":"10.21039/rsj.361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.361","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Timothy Schroder, ‘A Marvel to Behold’: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47327627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past","authors":"Flavien Bertran de Balanda, Gérard Gengembre","doi":"10.21039/rsj.321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.321","url":null,"abstract":"As early as 1795, immediately after the death of the young Louis XVII in his Parisian prison, the comte de Provence, brother of the late Louis XVI who had been executed in 1793, was hoping the course of history would prove him right. He opted to call himself Louis XVIII, a title which was made official nineteen years later when he became king. Proclaimed in the Déclaration de Vérone on 8 June 1795, in the midst of the Revolution, such an act implied that the Revolution was not happening, had never happened, and would never happen again. Our paper explores this new and ambivalent kind of resilience by examining three decisive moments during the reigns of Louis XVI’s two brothers, Louis XVIII (1814-1824) and Charles X (1824-1830): the First Restoration and the Hundred Days, with their curious institutional novelties and changes of hands; the early Second Restoration, when the game between the old and the new world seemed on and then over; and the first years of Charles X’s reign, when the tensions returned with a vengeance, probably climaxing in 1825 with the Compensation Act, known as “le milliard des émigrés.”","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47456114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watanabe-O'Kelly, Projecting Imperial Power. New Nineteenth-Century Emperors and the Public Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2021)","authors":"Aidan Jones","doi":"10.21039/rsj.352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/rsj.352","url":null,"abstract":"Reviw of Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Projecting Imperial Power. New Nineteenth-Century Emperors and the Public Sphere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).","PeriodicalId":36175,"journal":{"name":"Royal Studies Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49381373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}