Lordship, Kingship, and Empire

Lordship, Kingship, and Empire
Author: James Henderson Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a study of the ideology of monarchy in late medieval Europe. In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, European monarchies faced a series of crises and conflicts, which gave rise to intense debate as to the nature and authority of monarchy in its various forms. From such debates and polemics emerged many of the ideas that were to sustain the later confrontation between "absolutism" and "constitutionalism." Burns examines the ideas generated by various "crisis of monarchy" in France, England, the Spanish kingdoms, and what still claimed to be the "universal" monarchies of Empire and Papacy. This is a lucid and stimulating exploration of a major and previously neglected topic in the history of political thought by one of its leading historians.

Lordship, Kingship, and Empire

Lordship, Kingship, and Empire
Author: James Henderson Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1992
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9780191675133

This study examines the ideas generated by various "crises of monarchy" in 15th- and 16th-century Europe. These ideas were to sustain the later confrontation between "absolutism" and "constitutionalism".

Kingship

Kingship
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.

Theories of Empire, 1450–1800

Theories of Empire, 1450–1800
Author: David Armitage
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351879766

Theories of Empire, 1450-1800 draws upon published and unpublished work by leading scholars in the history of European expansion and the history of political thought. It covers the whole span of imperial theories from ancient Rome to the American founding, and includes a series of essays which address the theoretical underpinnings of the Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Dutch empires in both the Americas and in Asia. The volume is unprecedented in its attention to the wider intellectual contexts within which those empires were situated - particularly the discourses of universal monarchy, millenarianism, mercantalism, and federalism - and in its mapping of the shift from Roman conceptions of imperium to the modern idea of imperialism.

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 1, 600–1550

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 1, 600–1550
Author: Brendan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108625258

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.

The True Law of Kingship

The True Law of Kingship
Author: James Henderson Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198203841

This debate was of such intensity that James VI, the first king to rule over Scotland and England, wrote his own book on the subject: 'The True Lawe of Free Monarchies'.

Cultures of Power

Cultures of Power
Author: Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2013-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812200764

The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.

Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not

Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not
Author: Scot McKnight
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830839917

This volume brings together respected biblical scholars to evaluate the turn toward "empire criticism" in recent New Testament scholarship. While praising the movement for its deconstruction of Roman statecraft and ideology, the contributors also provide a salient critique of the anti-imperialist rhetoric pervading much of the current literature.

A Union for Empire

A Union for Empire
Author: John Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521029889

Essays by leading historians which explore the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.