Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unity: One empire, under God ; Seeking the mandate of Heaven ; An empire of the mind ; The Persian threat ; The apostate ; Earthquake and invasion ; Refounding the Kingdom ; The Catholic church -- Fractures: Excommunicated ; Cracked in two ; The sack of Rome ; One nature versus two ; Seeking a homeland ; The Gupta decline ; Northern ambitions ; The Huns ; Attila ; Orthodoxy ; The high kings ; The end of the Roman myth -- New powers: The Ostrogoths ; Byzantium ; Aspirations ; Resentment ; Elected Kings ; Invasion and eruption ; The Americas ; Great and holy majesty ; Pestilence ; The heavenly sovereign ; Reunification ; The South Indian kings ; Two emperors ; The mayors of the palaces ; Gregory the Great ; The Persian crusade ; The prophet ; Tang dominance ; The tribe of faith ; Intersection ; The troubles of empire -- States and kingdoms: Law and language ; Creating the past ; The days of the empress ; Paths into Europe ; The Kailasa of the South ; Purifications ; The Abbasids ; Charlemagne ; The An Lushan rebellion ; Imperator et Augustus ; The new Sennacherib ; Castle lords and regents ; The triumph of the outsiders ; The third dynasty ; The Vikings ; Long-lived kings ; Foreign and domestic relations ; The second caliphate ; The great army of the Vikings ; Struggle for the iron crown ; Kampaku ; Basileus ; The creation of Normandy ; The kingdom of Germany ; The turn of the wheel ; The capture of Baghdad ; Three kingdoms ; Kings of England ; The baptism of the Rus -- Crusades: The holy Roman emperor ; The hardship of sacred war ; Basil the Bulgar-slayer ; Defending the mandate ; The new found land ; Schism ; Danish domination ; The Norman conquest ; The kings of Spain ; The arrival of the Turks ; The loss of the song ; Repentance at Canossa ; The call ; Fighting for Jerusalem ; Aftershocks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: On the trail of an empire -- Prologue: The Persians before the Empire -- PART 1: THE EMPIRE-BUILDERS FROM CYRUS TO DARIUS: The land-collectors: Cyrus the Great and Cambyses (559-522) -- The conquest and after: an interim summary -- Trouble, secession, and rebuilding (522-518) -- Darius the Conqueror (520-486) -- PART 2: THE GREAT KING: Images of the world -- Representations of royalty and monarchic ideology -- People and life at court -- The King's men -- PART 3: TERRITORIES, POPULATIONS, AND THE DEPENDENT ECONOMY: Territories, communication, and trade -- Royal assessments and tribute -- Persia: empire and tribute economy -- The king of the lands -- PART 4: FROM XERXES TO DARIUS III: AN EMPIRE IN TURMOIL: Xerxes the Great King (486-465) == From the accession of Artaxerxes I to the death of Darius II (465-405/404) -- Artaxerxes II (405/404-359/338) and Artaxerxes III (359/358-338) -- PART 5: THE FOURTH CENTURY AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS III IN THE ACHAEMENID LONGUE DUREE: A PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT: Lands, people, and satrapies: taking stock of the Achaemenid world -- The great king, his armies, and his treasures -- PART 6: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE (336-330) : Darius and the empire confront Macedonian aggression -- Conclusion: From Nabonidus to Seleucus…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…D (David) -- P (Prince) -- K (King)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fellowship of the ring -- Two towers -- Return of the king…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The geography of the Jewish imagination : po-lin among trees with leaves from the Gemara -- Legends of acceptance : segregation versus involvement -- The legend of Abraham the Jew, King of Poland -- The legend of Esther the Jewess and King Casimir the Great of Poland -- My eyes shed tears, because the enemy has overcome : the transformation of legends of origin into legends of destruction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The land of Egypt -- The roots of the Egyptian state -- The Egyptian pursuit of the divine -- The royal power centres -- The dual kings -- The legacy of the founder kings -- The Third Dynasty : visions of eternity -- The pyramid age : the splendor of the Old Kingdom -- The Old Kingdom : fulfilment and decline -- The end of the Old Kingdom -- Eastwards from Egypt -- C.G. …”