Interview with Dr Cathleen Sarti: Deposing early modern European monarchs

The Royal Studies Podcast

In this episode, we continue this month's theme on deposed or deposing monarchs with an interview with Dr Cathleen Sarti about her work on this topic in early modern Europe. Below we have some recommendations from Cathleen if you would like to know more about the topic or follow up on some of the works she mentions in the interview:

• Sarti, Cathleen. Deposing Monarchs: Domestic Conflict and State Formation, 1500-1700. Routledge Research in Early Modern History. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2022.
• Chapter 34 in Routledge History of Monarchy has a list of depositions in Northern Europe 1300-1700 with short description (and of course, bibliography, movie recommendations, etc)
• Book Series Studies in Monarchy & Money:
• Edited Volume: Sarti, Cathleen, ed. Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts. Gender and Power in the Premodern World;. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2020.
• Depositions in Colonial Contexts: Aldrich, Robert. Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.

Recommended works on depositions by Susan Richter in German & French:

• Richter, Susan, and Dirk Dirbach, eds. Thronverzicht: Die Abdankung in Monarchien vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010.
• Richter, Susan. “Zeremonieller Schlusspunkt: Die Abdankung als Herrschertod.” In Thronverzicht: Die Abdankung in Monarchien vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit. Edited by Susan Richter and Dirk Dirbach, 75–94. Köln [u.a.]: Böhlau, 2010. (this is the chapter where abdication as reversal of coronation is discussed).
• Richter also edited another book (again in German) on the ceremonial aspects of abdications: Richter, Susan (Hg.): Entsagte Herrschaft Mediale Inszenierungen fürstlicher Abdankungen im Europa der Frühneuzeit, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2019.
• Richter, Susan: Seul un dragon sait quand il vient a l’existence et s’éteint, sans pourtant jamais perdre sa véritable nature. En vérité, lui seul est le Sage - La stratégie de l’empereur de Chine Qianlong pour légitimer son abdication en 1796. In: Burkardt, Albrecht (Hg.): Crépuscules du pouvoir. Destitutions et abdications de l’Antiquité au xxe siècle. Paris 2022. S. 509-536.
• Richter, Susan: L’abdication de Charles Quint de son titre d’empereur du Saint-Empire romain germanique. Aperçu juridique et « médiatique. In: Burkardt, Albrecht (Hg.): Crépuscules du pouvoir. Destitutions et abdications de l’Antiquité au xxe siècle. Paris 2022. S. 151-190.