Kingship: The Politics of EnchantmantISBN: 978-0-631-22695-6
Hardcover
212 pages
February 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations.
Series Editor's Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Prologue: Matters of Perspective.
1. Gate of the Gods: Archaic and Global Patterns of Cosmic Kingship.
2. Royal Saviors and Shepherds: Hellenistic, Roman, Biblical, and Qur’ânic views of Kingship.
3. The Eusebian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in Imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia.
4. The Carolingian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in the Germanic Successor Kingdoms of Western Europe.
5. Sacral Kingship in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: Papal, Imperial, National.
6. The Fading Nimbus: Modern Kingship and its Fate in a Disenchanted World.
Epilogue: Survivals and Revivals.
Notes.
Suggestions for Further Reading.
Index