Royal Succession
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Recent papers in Royal Succession
10th Congress of Hittitology 2017 in Chicago.
The traditions of the royal succession in the Kingdom of Hatti and the influence of the Tawananna.
The traditions of the royal succession in the Kingdom of Hatti and the influence of the Tawananna.
The system of royal succession in the Vandal kingdom of North Africa has long been regarded as idiosyncratic within the early medieval west, but its fullest implications have rarely been investigated closely. The present article examines... more
Genealogical chart showing the descent of King James (of the King James version of the Bible) from Arrius Calpurnius Piso, the main author of the gospels & creator of Christianity. Also see the paper 'The Audacity Of King James' in... more
This piece discusses the position of female heiresses and regnant queens, examining the structural and situational factors which can either aid an heiress in coming to the throne or conversely bar her accession. While the majority of the... more
This paper examines the thoughts of two prominent Korean Confucians of the late Goryeo 高麗 period (918-1392), Yi Saek 李穡 (1328-1396) and Jeong Do-jeon 鄭道傳 (1342-1398). Although they were both renowned as followers of Zhu Xi's... more
This paper examines the story of Shun’s 舜 ascension to the throne. This story has drawn considerable attention throughout Chinese history because of its significance with regard to political succession. However, in this paper, I shed... more
Christoph De Spiegeleer explores the impact of the untimely deaths of three young heirs to the throne on the 19th-century Belgian constitutional monarchy. The chapter starts with an account of the deaths of Prince Louis-Philippe (1834),... more
The article analyses two passages ( Hdt. 7,2-3 and Plu. Art. 2,2-3 ) which suggest that that there was a purported law in Achaemenid Persia that overrode royal primogeniture in specific circumstances. The available pieces of literary,... more
De façon très traditionnelle, les rois d’Aragon, comme leurs contemporains, couchent par écrit leurs volontés testamentaires à plusieurs reprises au cours de leur règne. Pierre IV (1336-1387) ne déroge pas à cette règle et sept de ses... more