The Royal Studies Journal is an online and fully open access publication which adheres to the highest standards of academic double blind peer-review. It provides a truly international and inter-disciplinary forum for scholars whose research is connected to monarchy in any aspect, period or geographical setting.
Contents
Articles
'Into our defense and saveguarde': Eton College and the Good Lordship of Edward, Duke of YorkAlex Brondarbit
Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Representations of Royal MartyrsNick K Crown
Book Reviews
Stonema, Xerxes: A Persian Life (Yale University Press, 2015).Mauro Serena
D'Avray, Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage, 860–1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2015).Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Pollock, The Lion, the Lily, and the Leopard: The Crown and Nobility of Scotland, France, and England, and the Struggle for Power (1100-1204) (Brepols Publishers, 2015).Emily Joan Ward
Strickland, Henry the Young King 1155–1183 (Yale University Press, 2016).Thomas Harry Chadwick
Hanley, Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England (Yale University Press, 2016).Sean Linscott Field
Duindam, Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2015).Derek R Whaley
McMahon, Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).Hang Lin
McGettigan, Richard II and the Irish Kings (Four Courts Press, 2016).David Green
Schutte, Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).Anne Louise Mearns
Keay, The Last Royal Rebel (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016).Nicholas Ezra Field
Womersley, James II: The Last Catholic King (Penguin, 2015).Hannah Jane Thomas
Germann, Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703–1768): Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2015).Heidi Anne Strobel
Hardman, The Life of Louis XVI (Yale University Press, 2016).Aurore Chery
Clarke, The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (Amberley Publishing, 2016)Natalie Hanley-Smith
Reed, Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911 (Manchester University Press, 2016).Laura Cook