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Author | : Francis Oakley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470692898 |
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.
Author | : A. Azfar Moin |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231555407 |
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective. Editors A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern present a theoretical framework for understanding sacred kingship, which leading scholars reflect on and respond to in a series of essays. They distinguish between two separate but complementary religious tendencies, immanentism and transcendentalism, which mold kings into divinized or righteous rulers, respectively. Whereas immanence demands priestly and cosmic rites from kings to sustain the flourishing of life, transcendence turns the focus to salvation and subordinates rulers to higher ethical objectives. Secular modernity does not end the struggle between immanence and transcendence—flourishing and righteousness—but only displaces it from kings onto nations and individuals. After an essay by Marshall Sahlins that ranges from the Pacific to the Arctic, the book contains chapters on religion and kingship in settings as far-flung as ancient Egypt, classical Greece, medieval Islam, Mughal India, modern European drama, and ISIS. Sacred Kingship in World History sheds new light on how religion has constructed rulership, with implications spanning global history, religious studies, political theory, and anthropology.
Author | : Henri Frankfort |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1971 |
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ISBN | : 9780226260105 |
Author | : David Bourke O'Connor |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004100411 |
This well-illustrated volume represents an extensive analysis of kingship in ancient Egypt. Each of the six contributing authors investigates particular areas of his own expertise. Among the topics covered are the origin of kingship, its distinctive traits and its general nature, and its reflection in royal art and architecture.
Author | : Lisa K. Sabbahy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108830919 |
This book presents a history of ancient Egyptian kingship. It examines the basis of kingship and its legitimacy.
Author | : ʻAzīz ʻAẓmah |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume of essays intends to present diverse aspects of monotheistic kingship during the Middle Ages in two general-theoretical articles and a series of "case studies" on the relationship of religion and rulership. The authors discuss examples of the role of religion--based on both textual and iconic evidence--in Carolingian, Ottonian and late medieval western Europe; in Byzantium and Armenia; Georgia; Hungary; the Khazar Khanatel; Poland, and Russia. Two studies explore the issue in medieval Jewish and Islamic political thought. The editors hope that these special inquiries will engender more comparative studies on the subject.
Author | : Valerio Valeri |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1985-06-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226845605 |
Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
Author | : Ronald G. Asch |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782383573 |
France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.
Author | : Tsubasa Okoshi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
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ISBN | : 9780813066691 |
Author | : Rory Naismith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107160979 |
This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence.