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Author : Anne Duggan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe written by Anne Duggan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Björn Weiler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009006223
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200 written by Björn Weiler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe was a world of kings, but what did this mean to those who did not themselves wear a crown? How could they prevent corrupt and evil men from seizing the throne? How could they ensure that rulers would not turn into tyrants? Drawing on a rich array of remarkable sources, this engaging study explores how the fears and hopes of a ruler's subjects shaped both the idea and the practice of power. It traces the inherent uncertainty of royal rule from the creation of kingship and the recurring crises of royal successions, through the education of heirs and the intrigue of medieval elections, to the splendour of a king's coronation, and the pivotal early years of his reign. Monks, crusaders, knights, kings (and those who wanted to be kings) are among a rich cast of characters who sought to make sense of and benefit from an institution that was an object of both desire and fear.
Author : Björn Weiler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781009009218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950-1200 written by Björn Weiler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe was a world of kings, but what did this mean to those who did not themselves wear a crown? How could they prevent corrupt and evil men from seizing the throne? How could they ensure that rulers would not turn into tyrants? Drawing on a rich array of remarkable sources, this engaging study explores how the fears and hopes of a ruler's subjects shaped both the idea and the practice of power. It traces the inherent uncertainty of royal rule from the creation of kingship and the recurring crises of royal successions, through the education of heirs and the intrigue of medieval elections, to the splendour of a king's coronation, and the pivotal early years of his reign. Monks, crusaders, knights, kings (and those who wanted to be kings) are among a rich cast of characters who sought to make sense of and benefit from an institution that was an object of both desire and fear.
Author : Henry Allen Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Medieval Kingship written by Henry Allen Myers and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Kershaw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198208707
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Peaceful Kings written by Paul Kershaw and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full scholarly exploration of the relationship between the idea of peace and rulership through Europe's formative centuries, Peaceful Kings asks what peace meant to early medieval people, and to what extent royal intentions endeavoured to meet collective expectations.
Author : Lynette Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004228977
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Every Inch a King written by Lynette Mitchell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Verena Krebs
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030649342
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe written by Verena Krebs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242147
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Every Inch a King written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Fritz Kern
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 158477570X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages written by Fritz Kern and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Study of Early Constitutional Law. First published in 1914, this is one of the most important studies of early constitutional law. Kern observes that discussions of the state in the ninth, eleventh and thirteenth centuries invariably asked whose rights were paramount. Were they those of the ruler or the people? Kern locates the origins of this debate, which has continued to the twentieth century, in church doctrine and the history of the early German states. He demonstrates that the interaction of "these two sets of influences in conflict and alliance prepared the ground for a new outlook in the relations between the ruler and the ruled, and laid the foundations both of absolutist and of constitutional theory" (4). "[A] pioneering and classic study." --Norman F. Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages, 106. Fritz Kern [1884-1950] was a professor, journalist and state official. From 1914 to 1918 he worked for the Foreign Ministry and the General Staff in Berlin. One of the leading medieval historians of his time, his works include Die Anfänge der Französischen Ausdehnungspolitik bis zum Jahr 1308 (1910) and Recht und Verfassung im Mittelalter (1919).
Author : P. H. Sawyer
Publisher : Editors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early Medieval Kingship written by P. H. Sawyer and published by Editors. This book was released on 1977 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Kaeuper
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004302654
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Kings, Knights and Bankers written by Richard Kaeuper and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kings, Knights, and Bankers, Richard Kaeuper presents a lifetime of research on Italian financiers, English kingship, chivalric violence, and knightly piety.
Author : Katherine Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134454538
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England written by Katherine Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, for a variety of purposes: to praise and eulogise but also to explain shortcomings and provide justification for deposition. Katherine J. Lewis examines discourses of masculinity in relation to contemporary understandings of the nature and acquisition of manhood in the period and considers the extent to which judgements of a king’s performance were informed by his ability to embody the right balance of manly qualities. This book’s primary concern is with how these two kings were presented, represented and perceived by those around them, but it also asks how far Henry V and Henry VI can be said to have understood the importance of personifying a particular brand of masculinity in their performance of kingship and of meeting the expectations of their subjects in this respect. It explores the extent to which their established reputations as inherently ‘manly’ and ‘unmanly’ kings were the product of their handling of political circumstances, but owed something to factors beyond their immediate control as well. Consideration is also given to Margaret of Anjou’s manipulation of ideologies of kingship and manhood in response to her husband’s incapacity, and the ramifications of this for perceptions of the relational gender identities which she and Henry VI embodied together. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England is an essential resource for students of gender and medieval history.
Author : John W. Bernhardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521833
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, C.936-1075 written by John W. Bernhardt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how monasteries provided crucial economic and political support to itinerant monarchs in medieval Germany.
Author : Sergio Bertelli
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041390
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The King's Body written by Sergio Bertelli and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.
Author : Kathrin McCann
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832941
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power written by Kathrin McCann and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works on Anglo-Saxon kingship often take as their starting point the line from Beowulf: ‘that was a good king’. This monograph, however, explores what it means to be a king, and how kings defined their own kingship in opposition to other powers. Kings derived their royal power from a divine source, which led to conflicts between the interpreters of the divine will (the episcopate) and the individual wielding power (the king). Demonstrating how Anglo-Saxon kings were able to manipulate political ideologies to increase their own authority, this book explores the unique way in which Anglo-Saxon kings understood the source and nature of their power, and of their own authority.
Author : Sean McGlynn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868523
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by Sean McGlynn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monarchy is an enduring institution that still makes headlines today. It has always been preoccupied with image and perception, never more so than in the period covered by this volume. The collection of papers gathered here from international scholars demonstrates that monarchical image and perception went far beyond cultural, symbolic and courtly display – although these remain important – and were, in fact, always deeply concerned with the practical expression of authority, politics and power. This collection is unique in that it covers the subject from two innovative angles: it not only addresses both kings and queens together, but also both the medieval and early modern periods. Consequently, this allows significant comparisons to be made between male and female monarchy as well as between eras. Such an approach reveals that continuity was arguably more important than change over a span of some five centuries. In removing the traditional gender and chronological barriers that tend to lead to four separate areas of studies for kings and queens in medieval and early modern history, the papers here are free to encompass male and female royal rulers ranging across Europe from the early-thirteenth to the late-seventeenth centuries to examine the image and perception of monarchy in England, Scotland, France, Burgundy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Collectively this volume will be of interest to all those studying medieval and early modern monarchy and for those wishing to learn about the connections and differences between the two.
Author : Fritz Kern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages written by Fritz Kern and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
