Introduction / Jonathan Spangler
"The very next blood of the king" : legitimisation and adaptation of the law of female succession in English history / Lynsey Wood
Portugal, 1385: a people's choice or coup d'état? / Isabel de Pina Baleiras
From election to consolidation: the strategies of legitimacy of the Trastámara Dynasty in the Crown of Aragon / Lledó Ruiz Domingo
Sigismund of Sweden as foreigner in his own kingdom: how the King of Sweden was made an alien / Cathleen Sarti
Free election, divine providence and constitution: legitimacy of royal power in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Jolanta Choinska-Mika and Katarzyna Kuras
Legitimacy through family traditions? The Hanoverians represented as successors to the throne of Great Britain / Charlotte Backerra
"The reversal of dynasties" during the Bourbon Era in the Kingdom of Naples / Cinzia Recca
Purple dreams of the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium in manuscript illuminations: legitimising the usurping emperor, Basil I (867-886) / Alexandra Karagianni
"King by fact, not by law": legitimacy and exequies in medieval England / Anna Duch
The exaltation of the "holiness" of the Bragança dynasty as a legitimating strategy in the seventeenth century / Paula Almeida Mendes
Consolidating authority in seventeenth-century Morocco: Sultan Moulay Ismail's strategies for legitimacy / Fatima Rhorchi
Dominae imperiales: Ottonian women and dynastic stability, strength and legitimacy in tenth-century Germany / Penelope Nash
Legitimacy represented through court entertainment: La Estatua de Prometeo and the power struggle between Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan José of Austria / Caitlin Brady Carter
Catherine the Great: how the question of legitimacy influenced her politics / Elena Teibenbacher.