monarchology

English

Etymology

From monarch +‎ -ology.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

monarchology (uncountable)

1. (rare) The study of monarchs.
   • 1913, Lewis Leopold, “Political Prestige”, in Prestige: A Psychological Study of Social Estimates, London, Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin;  […], book III, page 291:

     Here we have the “merely psychological” monarchology—the classical principles of princely conduct based upon appearances.

   • 1914, “Some Foreign Reviews”, in The Review of Reviews, volume L, section “Spanish”, subsection “A Biography of Kings”, page 146, column 2:

     It is really monarchology, a biography of kings, with a record of battles and kingly doings, not a history of the people.

   • 1972, Sigmund H. Uminski, Poland Discovers America (The Poles in the Americas; volume I), New York, N.Y.: Polish Publication Society of America, pages 61–62:

     Or General news by John Botero Benesivs, divided into five parts. The First contains Cosmography, i.e., a description of the four parts of the world, […]. The Third contains Monarchology, i.e., information is given about the world’s most notable Monarchies.

   • 2006, Jeremy Paxman, “Being God’s Anointed”, in On Royalty, Viking, →ISBN, page 138:

     The relatively bloodless coup d’état of the Glorious Revolution of 1688–9, at which his Protestant son-in-law William seized the throne, brought to power a man with a healthy disdain for some of the more credulous aspects of monarchology.

   • 2016, Carine Lounissi, “Thomas Paine’s democratic linguistic radicalism: a political philosophy of language?”, in Laurent Curelly, Nigel Smith, editors, Radical Voices, Radical Ways: Articulating and Disseminating Radicalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, part I (Radical language and themes):

     Still, even if their overall approaches to politics differed, in The Law of Freedom in a Platform, the Digger referred to ‘kings alias conquerors’, a conception that was shared by Paine who developed a kind of monarchology that described the creation of monarchy as a standardised phenomenon.