| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 412 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Rulers & elites ; v. 2 |
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Rulers & elites ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
"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, 'Abd-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 'Abbas I / Kishwar Rizvi |
| Summary |
Drawing on studies of kings from Cyrus to Shah Abbas, this volume provides a rich variety of readings on royal authority and its limitations in medieval societies in both Europe and the Middle East, exemplified especially in the case of Alexander the Great, God and King, and the persistence of his legend in later eras |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Kings and rulers -- History -- To 1500
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Kings and rulers, Ancient.
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Kings and rulers, Medieval.
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Kings and rulers
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Kings and rulers, Ancient
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Kings and rulers, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mitchell, Lynette G. (Lynette Gail), 1966-
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Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter), 1951-
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| LC no. |
2012038877 |
| ISBN |
9004242147 |
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9789004242142 |
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9789004228979 |
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9004228977 |
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9781283854962 |
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1283854961 |
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