Kingship the politics of enchantment
From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred. The book considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub
2006
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| Colección: | New perspectives on the past
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : matters of perspective
- Gate of the gods : archaic and global patterns of cosmic kingship
- Royal saviors and shepherds : Hellenistic, Roman, biblical, and Islamic views of kingship
- The Eusebian accommodation : Christian rulership in imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia
- The Carolingian accommodation : Christian rulership in the Germanic successor kingdoms of Western Europe
- The sacrality of kingship in medieval and early modern Europe : papal, imperial, national
- The fading nimbus : modern kingship and its fate in a disenchanted world
- Epilogue : survivals and revivals.
