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Author(s): Francis Oakley
ISBN(s): 9780631226956, 0631226958
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.16 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0631226958

ISBN 13: 9780631226956

Author: Francis Oakley

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.

  • Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica; the medieval popes and emperors; and the English and French monarchs of early modern Europe
  • Explores the panoply of governing roles that kingship involved – administrative, military, judicial, economic, religious and symbolic – but focussing on its connection with the sacred.
  • Draws on the insights of cultural anthropology and comparative religion, as well as the on the resources provided by historians.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Gate of the Gods: Archaic and Global Patterns of Cosmic Kingship

Chapter 2: Royal Saviors and Shepherds: Hellenistic, Roman, Biblical, and Islamic Views of Kingship

Chapter 3: The Eusebian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in Imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia

Chapter 4: The Carolingian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in the Germanic Successor Kingdoms of Western Europe

Chapter 5: The Sacrality of Kingship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Papal, Imperial, National

Chapter 6: The Fading Nimbus: Modern Kingship and its Fate in a Disenchanted World

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