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200 10$aKingship$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of enchantment /$fFrancis Oakley
210   $aMalden, MA ;$aOxford $cBlackwell Pub.$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (210 p.)
225 1 $aNew perspectives on the past
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-470-70423-3 
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aPrologue : matters of perspective -- Gate of the gods : archaic and global patterns of cosmic kingship -- Royal saviors and shepherds : Hellenistic, Roman, biblical, and Islamic views of kingship -- The Eusebian accommodation : Christian rulership in imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia -- The Carolingian accommodation : Christian rulership in the Germanic successor kingdoms of Western Europe -- The sacrality of kingship in medieval and early modern Europe : papal, imperial, national -- The fading nimbus : modern kingship and its fate in a disenchanted world -- Epilogue : survivals and revivals.
330   $aFrom despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred.Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica; the medieval popes and emperors; and the English and French monarchs of early modern Europe Explores the panoply of governing roles that kingship involved - administrative, military, judicial, economic, religious and symbolic - but 
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