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  title info:
    title: Creating an empire of informers
    sub title: vigilance in the Assyrian Empire and King Esarhaddon's adê-Covenant of 672 BC
  name:
    name part: Tushingham, Poppy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    place:
      place term: DE
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XI, 286 pages).
  abstract: Throughout history, many states have attempted to harness the attention of their populations for their own ends. This study argues that the Assyrian Empire in the year 672 BC is such a case. In 672 BC, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, imposed a succession covenant (adê) on his subjects, the inhabitants of the Assyrian Empire. This covenant required the empire's population to monitor one another, and themselves, for signs of disloyalty to the monarch and his chosen successor, Ashurbanipal. This study examines the aims and outcomes, desired and undesired, of imposing this duty of vigilance across the Assyrian Empire. To consider the presentation and implementation of this duty of vigilance, the study draws largely on evidence supplied by the covenant and other royally-commissioned texts. To examine the outcomes of the covenant's enactment, meanwhile, it explores cuneiform sources, such as letters to the crown, private legal documents, and literary compositions, as well as the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the biblical Book of Deuteronomy. By providing a sustained analysis of the real-world implications and outcomes of the covenant, this book sheds new light on a text that fundamentally altered the political makeup of the Assyrian Empire.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: The royal call to vigilance in 672 BC -- Chapter 2: King Esarhaddon and his empire in the covenant composition -- Chapter 3: Directing vigilance in the covenant composition -- Chapter 4: Laying the ideological groundwork for enacting the covenant -- Chapter 5: Putting the covenant into practice -- Part 2: Responses to the call to vigilance -- Chapter 6: Responses to covenant at Esarhaddon's court -- Chapter 7: Responses to Esarhaddon's covenant in the provinces -- Chapter 8: Responses to Esarhaddon's covenant across the client states -- Chapter 9: Conclusions. Creating an empire of informers -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Divine Names -- Index of Place Names -- Index of Ancient Texts
  target audience: specialized
  note: Poppy Tushingham.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Deuteronomium
  subject:
    topic: Esar-Haddon
  subject:
    topic: Raum
  subject:
    topic: Verantwortung
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / General
  classification: 935.03
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Vigilanzkulturen (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 10
  identifier: 9783111323435
  identifier: 3111323439
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 240426
    record change date: 20240718165006.1
    record identifier: in00004796898
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng