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"This world is too cruel for children"
Meeting and playing kings in video games.
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The Unhappy Life of Maria Eleanora of Brandenburg, Queen of Sweden
One of the problems many portrayals of monarchy run into is that they present monarchs as at once all powerful and tragically constricted by duty. Take…
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Rebecca Harwick
Power, violence, and divinity in Bronze Age kingship
Writing monarchy in The King Must Die by Mary Renault
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The romance of kings and queens
The trouble with fictional monarchs
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September update: Writing from the gut, a reading challenge, and more
What happened last month? August was a busy month split between returning from our US trip to visit family and getting everything setup for the…
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Guts not mirrors
On speaking from the gut
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