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The first full-length study of Robert of Naples’ reign in over seventy years, this volume analyzes Robert’s policies and image in the context of larger shifts in rulership from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.
Treating kingship as a joint enterprise of king and court, it draws on an interdisciplinary range of sources from chronicles, sermons, popular poetry, and works of art to diplomatic and archival records, to reassess the major issues of his reign and underscore the importance of image-making and negotiation to his rule. The final chapter tracks the legacy of his image as “the Wise,” adopted by later fourteenth-century kings of France, Bohemia, and England before its eclipse in favour of princely prudence in the Renaissance.
Treating kingship as a joint enterprise of king and court, it draws on an interdisciplinary range of sources from chronicles, sermons, popular poetry, and works of art to diplomatic and archival records, to reassess the major issues of his reign and underscore the importance of image-making and negotiation to his rule. The final chapter tracks the legacy of his image as “the Wise,” adopted by later fourteenth-century kings of France, Bohemia, and England before its eclipse in favour of princely prudence in the Renaissance.
Price: $250.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
25 March 2003
ISBN: 9789004129450
Format: Hardcover
'The book Kelly has given us provides us with a wealth of information including two maps, a genealogical table, an annotated appendix listing all the manuscripts of political sermons used for the study...a model study in that it provides us with a fresh approach and new materials with which to understand both Angevin history and the nature of kingship and court culture in the medieval and early modern periods.'
Katherine L. Jansen, The Medieval Review, 2004.
'...a highly successful monograph...'
Ronald G. Musto, Renaissance Quarterly, 2004.
Winner in January 2005 of the 30th annual Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association.
Katherine L. Jansen, The Medieval Review, 2004.
'...a highly successful monograph...'
Ronald G. Musto, Renaissance Quarterly, 2004.
Winner in January 2005 of the 30th annual Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association.
Samantha Kelly, Ph.D. (1998) in History, Northwestern University, is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.