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This chapter situates the work of this volume in its context amongst the interdisciplinary and extensive field of memory, drawing upon some of the foundational works to support the need for the examination of the memorialisation of monarchs in a comparative and international approach. Through this lens, we can draw wider trends and infer how and why societies chose to depict their monarchs in particular ways, whilst highlighting the extant work on memory and monarchy, and why this remains an important area for further research and development. It draws together the collection of chapters and highlights the key findings of this work.
My thanks go to Karl C. Alvestad for his comments and feedback, and support in the completion of this work.
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Elisabeth van Houts, ed., Medieval Memories. Men, Women and the Past, 700–1300 (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2001); Elisabeth van Houts, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999).
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Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire,” Representations 26 (1989): 7–24.
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Geoffrey Cubitt, History and memory (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), 9.
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Estelle Paranque, ed., Remembering Queens and Kings in Early Modern England and France. Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, eds., Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers. Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
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Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Collective Memory and the Historical Past (London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016), 168–210; see also Jeffrey Andrew Barash, “The Sources of Memory,” Journal of the History of Ideas 58.4 (1997): 707–717.
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Janice North, Elena Woodacre, and Karl C. Alvestad, “Introduction—Getting Modern: Depicting Premodern Power and Sexuality in Popular Media,” in Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers, 3.
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Theresa Earenfight, “Highly Visible, Often Obscured: The Difficulty of Seeing Queens and Noble Women,” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 44 (2008): 86–90.
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Elena Woodacre, ed., A Companion to Global Queenship (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2018); Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H. S. Dean, Chris Jones, Russell E. Martin, and Zita Eva Rohr, eds., The Routledge History of Monarchy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019).
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Storey, G. (2022). Introduction: The Memorialisation of Monarchs in an International Context. In: Storey, G. (eds) Memorialising Premodern Monarchs. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84130-0_1
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