Understanding the mechanisms of monarchy / Elena Woodacre -- The "wise king" topos in context : royal literacy and political theology in medieval Western Europe (c.1000-1200) / Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña -- The biblical King Solomon in representations of Western European medieval royalty / Laura Fabian -- Regal power and the royal family in a thirteenth-century Iberian legislative programme / Manuela Santos Silva -- Personal union, composite monarchy, and "multiple rule" / Charlotte Backerra -- Dynastic succession in an elective monarchy : the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire / Matthias Schnettger -- Dei gratia and the "divine right of kings" : divine legitimization or human humility? / Matthias Range -- A case-study of pre-modern Islamic monarchy : the Almohad Caliphate of the Maghreb and al-Andalus in the 12th-13th centuries / Pascal Buresi -- Contemporary kingship in Muslim Arab societies in comparative context / David Mednicoff -- Faith, power and charity : personal religion and kingship in medieval England / Paul Webster -- The nation as a ritual community : royal nation-building in imperial Japan and post-war Thailand / David Malitz -- The nationalisation and mediatisation of European monarchies in times of sorrow : royal deaths and funerals in the second half of the nineteenth century / Christoph de Spiegeleer -- A useless ceremony of some use : a comparative study of attitudes to coronations in Norway and Sweden in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Trond Isaksen -- Negotiating with the neighbours : kingship and diplomacy in Munhumutapa / Eugénia Rodrigues -- Early modern monarchy and foreign travel / Philippa Woodcock -- Kingship and masculinity in Renaissance Portugal (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) / Hélder Carvalhal -- Royal representation through the father and warrior figures in early modern Europe / Estelle Paranque -- Chasing St. Louis : the English monarchy's pursuit of sainthood / Anna Duch -- Raising royal bodies : Stuart authority and the monumental image / Catriona Murray -- In pursuit of social allies : royal residences and political legitimacy in post-revolutionary Europe, 1804-1830 / Mikolaj Getka-Kenig -- Clothing royal bodies : changing attitudes to royal dress and appearance from the Middle Ages to modernity / Benjamin Wild -- Anticipatory association of the heir in early modern Russia : primogeniture and succession in Russia's ruling dynasties / Russell E. Martin -- From a Salic law to the Salic law : the creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of medieval France / Derek Whaley -- A family affair : cultural anxiety, political debate and the nature of monarchy in seventeenth-century France and Britain / Jonathan Spangler -- What's in a name? Dynasty, succession and England's queens regnant (1553-2016) / Sarah Betts -- Female pharaohs in ancient Egypt / Aidan Norrie -- Neither heir nor spare : childless queens and the practice of monarchy in pre-modern Europe / Theresa Earenfight & Kristen Geaman -- Harem politics : royal women and succession crises in the ancient Near East (c. 1400-300 BCE) / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Child kings and guardianship in North-Western Europe c. 1050-c. 1250 / Emily Joan Ward -- Creating chiefs and queen mothers in Ghana : obstacles and opportunities / Beverly J. Stoeltje -- Deposition of of monarchs in Northern Kingdoms, 1300-1700 / Cathleen Sarti -- Male consorts and royal authority in the Crusader States / Stephen Donnachie -- Kings and nobles on the fringe of Christendom : a comparative perspective on monarchy and aristocracy in the European Middle Ages / Kim Bergqvist -- For better or for worse : royal marital sexuality as political critique in late medieval Europe / Henric Bagerius and Christine Ekholst -- The Tudor monarchy of counsel and the growth of reason of state / Joanne Paul with Valerie Schutte -- Ruling emotions : affective and emotional strategies of power and authority among early modern European monarchies / Susan Broomhall -- From galanterie to scandal : the sexuality of the king from Louis XIV to XVI / Chad Denton -- Queen Min, foreign policy, and the role of female leadership in late nineteenth-century Korea / Frank Jacob.