Every inch a king : comparative studies on kings and kingship in the ancient and medieval worlds

Author(s)

• Mitchell, Lynette G. (Lynette Gail)
• Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter)

Bibliographic Information

Every inch a king : comparative studies on kings and kingship in the ancient and medieval worlds

edited by Lynette Mitchell, Charles Melville

（Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance, v. 2）

Brill, 2013

• : hardback : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Contributors List of Illustrations "Every Inch a King". Kings and Kingship from Antiquity to the Medieval World, 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 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: AEthelstan, 'Abd-ar-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 Bernhardt Ruling from the Outside: A New Perspective on Early Turkish Kingship in Iran, David Durand-Guedy 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 Index

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• NCID: BB11551776
• ISBN:
  • 9789004228979
• LCCN: 2012038877
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 412 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JC375
  • DC23 : 321.609
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Kings and rulers -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Kings and rulers, Ancient
  • LCSH : Kings and rulers, Medieval
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB08140558