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ground within the 169 walter de lacy wider context of western European political thought or action, but it was a watershed in English politics.20 The young King Henry III had been commended into the safekeeping of his father’s most trusted magnates and the legate, and they had immediately taken steps to limit his rule and deprive him of the form of kingship that his grandfather, uncle and father had achieved. Winning the war: 1216–17 The royalist barons of the regency council may have wielded considerable power in their redefinition of English kingship that autumn
gentry’, p. 47. 2 Carter, ‘Sound of silence’. 3 Kisby, ‘Music in European cities’, p. 82. 4 Strohm, ‘European politics’. 5
additional meanings that remained available in European political thinking for Hincmar of Reims, De raptu, PL 125, cols 1017B–C. 70 The rhetoric of election 31 many centuries to come, and could serve as a basis for providential concepts of modern nationalism. Acknowledgements Research for this article was supported by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) in the Wittgenstein Prize project ‘Ethnic processes in Early Medieval Europe’ (2005–10) and in the SFB ‘VISCOM’ F42-G18. A first version of this paper was discussed in January 2010 at a workshop in Hawarden, UK, in the