Murder and Monarchy: Regicide in European History, 1300-1800

PART I: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS Introduction; R.Von Friedeburg The Office of Rule and the Rhetorics of Tyrannicide in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; C.Condren PART II: MEDIEVAL KINGS AND THE MAKING OF MONARCHY Murder and Monarchy in the Visigothic Kingdoms; J.Hillgarth Murdering the Anointed; J.P.Genet PART III: REX INUTILIS: THE DEFENCE OF MONARCHY AGAINST ITS KINGS IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE Resisting and Deposing Kings in England in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; C.Carpenter France in the 15th Century; N.Bulst Limitations to Monarchical Power; W.Blockmans PART IV: 'NEW MONARCHY - NEW MONARCHS?' THE PUNISHMENT OF TYRANTS, HERETICS AND TRAITORS 'Pro me si mereor in me': Kingship and Tyranny in Scotland, 1437-1587; J.H.Burns The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; D.Loades The French Monarchy and the Assassination of Henry III; M.Greengrass PART V: RELGIOUS TURMOIL AND THE DEFENCE OF ORDER BY MONARCHICAL MEANS Murder and Monarchy in France; L.Bely Regicide: The Execution of Charles I and English Political Thought; G.Burgess PART VI: THE DAWN OF EARLY MODERN MONARCHY Medieval and Early Modern Constitutionalism and Autocracy: Monarchy in Sweden and Russia and the Eighteenth Century Regicides; K.Zernack The Breakdown of the Rule of Law: A Comparative View of the Depositions of George III, Louis XVI and Napoleon I; V.Sellin PART VII: VISIONS OF MONARCHY, OLD AND NEW Conclusion; J.Morrill Index