Kingship : the politics of enchantment /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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| Series: | New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher)
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- 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.