Kingship : the politics of enchantment /

Main Author: Oakley, Francis.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Series:New perspectives on the past
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245 1 |a Kingship :  |b the politics of enchantment /  |c Francis Oakley. 
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300 1 |a xiii, 193 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a New perspectives on the past 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 |a Prologue : matters of perspective -- Gate of the gods : archaic and global patterns of cosmic kingship -- Royal saviors and shepherds : Hellenistic, Roman, biblical, and Islamic views of kingship -- The Eusebian accommodation : Christian rulership in imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia -- The Carolingian accommodation : Christian rulership in the Germanic successor kingdoms of Western Europe -- The sacrality of kingship in medieval and early modern Europe : papal, imperial, national -- The fading nimbus : modern kingship and its fate in a disenchanted world -- Epilogue : survivals and revivals. 
650 1 |a Kings and rulers  |x History. 
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