Kingship
Subtitle: the politics of enchantment
By: Francis Oakley.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780631226956; 9780631226963
Subjects: Kings and rulers -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Matters of perspective; title: Gate of the gods : archaic and global patterns of cosmic kingship; title: Royal saviors and shepherds : Hellenistic, Roman, biblical, and Qur'anic views of kingship; title: The Eusebian accommodation : Christian rulership in imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia; title: The Carolingian accommodation : Christian rulership in the Germanic successor kingdoms of Western Europe; title: Sacral kingship in medieval and early-modern Europe : papal, imperial, national; title: The fading nimbus : modern kingship and its fate in a disenchanted world; title: Epilogue: Survivals and revivals.