Chapter 24 - Russell Martin
Succession & Dynasty
This introduction surveys the themes and questions raised in the section “Succession & Dynasty” and also provides a brief summary of each of the 10 chapters that comprise it. It provides a historiographical sketch of the study of dynasties, tracing how the concept of dynasty has fallen in and out of fashion over the second half of the 20th century, and how today the concept is experiencing a significant revival of interest among serious historians of family, women, rituals, religion, and power. The introduction also explores how the study of dynastic succession has evolved over the decades. A key part of dynastic rule, succession followed many patterns and forms in the different spaces treated in this section and in this book generally: including primogeniture, agnatic succession, collateral succession, and a host of variations of these forms. The themes of succession and dynasty run through all 10 articles, even though they treat a wide range of places and periods—from ancient Egypt, to contemporary Ghana, to medieval and early modern Europe and Russia. This set of chapters is particularly strong in its treatment of women in the context of dynastic rule: as mothers of monarchs, siblings and wives of monarchs, and as rulers in their own right. The introduction therefore helps situate the topics Succession and Dynasty in the larger Problematik of monarchy treated in the other sections of this volume.
By Russell Martin
Russell Martin
Dr. Russell E. Martin is professor of History at Westminster College (New Wilmington, Penna., USA). He is the author of A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia, which won the 2014 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, and co-author (with Wendy Salmond and Wilfried Zeisler) of Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar’s Painter in Paris and New York, and editor or co-editor of six other books on early modern and modern Russian history. His more than seventy peer-reviewed articles and book chapters have appeared in Slavic Review, Russian Review, Russian History, Manuscripta, Kritika, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Forschungen zur Osteuropäischen Geschichte, and elsewhere, as well as a number of edited volumes and Festschriften. He is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian-American Slavic Studies, President of the Early Slavic Studies Association, and a member of the Chancellery of the Head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanoff (Moscow). He is presently finishing a book on royal wedding customs in Muscovy in the 16th through early 18th centuries.
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