Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 411 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9789004242142
Series Statement:
Rulers and elites v. 2
Content:
Preliminary Material -- “Every Inch a King”. Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds /Lynette Mitchell and Charles Melville -- Defining the Divine in Achaemenid Persian Kingship: The View from Bisitun /Margaret Cool Root -- Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Fictive History, Political Analysis and Thinking with Iranian Kings /Christopher Tuplin -- Alexander the Great: Divinity and the Rule of Law /Lynette Mitchell -- Seleucus I, Zeus and Alexander /Kyle Erickson -- Machiavelli and Xenophon’s Cyrus: Searching for the Modern Conceptions of Monarchy /Waller R. Newell -- Ruling “Virtually”? Royal Images in Medieval English Law Books /Anthony Musson -- The Anomalous King of Conquered England /Laura Ashe -- Telling Tales of Adulterous Queens in Medieval England: From Olympias of Macedonia to Elizabeth Woodville /Joanna Laynesmith -- Royalty Reflected in the Chronicles of Froissart /Peter Ainsworth -- Breaking and Making Tradition: Æthelstan, ʿAbd-al-Rahman III and Their Panegyrists /Shane Bobrycki -- The King As Subject, Master and Model of Authority: The Case of Alfonso X of Castile /Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo -- God and Caesar: The Dynamics of Visigothic Monarchy /Andrew Fear -- “On the Road Again”: Kings, Roads and Accommodation in High Medieval Germany /John W. Bernhardt -- Ruling from the Outside: A New Perspective on Early Turkish Kingship in Iran /David Durand-Guédy -- The Royal Image in Mongol Iran /Charles Melville -- Architecture and the Representations of Kingship during the Reign of the Safavid Shah ʿAbbas I /Kishwar Rizvi -- Index.
Content:
The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly image is created and presented and how the ruler performs his or her function as the source of justice are among the topics addressed in this volume, which also covers the role of queens in maintaining dynastic succession yet being the target of tales of adultery. This volume is of particular interest in bringing together studies of kingly power from Cyrus the Great and Alexander in the ancient world to Shah Abbas in the seventeenth century, and covering the European Middle Ages as well as Iran and the Muslim world
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004228979
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013 ISBN 9789004228979
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004242142
