Oakley Kingship

The Politics of Enchantmant
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69289-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Perspectives on the Past

From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic erato the present, this book traces the history of kingship around theworld 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 andsymbolic - but focussing on its connection with thesacred.
* Draws on the insights of cultural anthropology and comparativereligion, as well as the on the resources provided byhistorians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oakley, Francis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Series Editor's Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Prologue: Matters of Perspective.
1. Gate of the Gods: Archaic and Global Patterns of CosmicKingship.
2. Royal Saviors and Shepherds: Hellenistic, Roman, Biblical,and Qur'ânic views of Kingship.
3. The Eusebian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in ImperialRome, Byzantium, and Russia.
4. The Carolingian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in theGermanic Successor Kingdoms of Western Europe.
5. Sacral Kingship in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: Papal,Imperial, National.
6. The Fading Nimbus: Modern Kingship and its Fate in aDisenchanted World.
Epilogue: Survivals and Revivals.
Notes.
Suggestions for Further Reading.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francis Oakley is the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas and President Emeritus of Williams College, Massachusetts. He is also President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. In 1999 he was Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor of the History of Ideas at Oxford University. He is the author of The Medieval Experience (1988 [1974]), Omnipotence, Covenant,and Order (1984), The Conciliarist Tradition (2003), and Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights (2005).