LEADER 04226nam 22005533 450 001 9910838177603321 005 20231218084508.0 010 $a3-11-067636-2 010 $a3-11-067632-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110676327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31016830 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31016830 035 $a(DE-B1597)536266 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110676327 035 $a(OCoLC)1415893366 035 $a(CKB)29374732800041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929374732800041 100 $a20231218d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPower of the Priests $ePolitical Use of Religious Knowledge 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerlin/Boston :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (330 pages) 311 08$a3-11-067621-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tShaping Policy: Case Study from Ancient Egypt -- $tThe Political Role of an Egyptian Priest under the Early Ptolemies: The Case of Manetho -- $tOracles as an Instrument for Political Decisions and Royal Legitimation: A Case Study of Ancient Egypt -- $tExperts for Teaching and Consulting -- $tPolitics in the Life of Daniel the Stylite: The Holy Man as a Political Player in Late Antique Constantinople -- $tDid Brahmins have Power in Premodern India? -- $tInstrumentalizing the 'Priests' -- $tIdeologists, Instigators or 'Stage Props'? Priests and Popular Protest in the English Rising of 1381 -- $tGender, Politics and Religion in Antiquity: The Challenge of the Reign of Queen Alexandra -- $t'Vassal' or 'political player'? Towards a re-assessment of Willibrord's political activity in Merovingian Francia (AD 690-739) -- $tControl of Knowledge: Documenting Priestly Power -- $tThe Power of the Rabbis: Reading Urban Stories of Late Antiquity -- $t"Domination through Knowledge": The Sacred Dimension of Bureaucracy in the Oracular Sanctuary of Dodona -- $tBehind the Scene: Religion at the Service of Politics in Ancient Egypt: Views from Philae Island -- $tIn the Field of Power: Priests and Legitimization -- $tPower through Pilgrimage: The Making of the Papacy -- $tA New Political Order in the Late Sixth Century BC Athens Powered by the Delphic Oracle -- $tKeepers of the Secrets of the Sky, the Earth, and the Underworld: The High Priests of Ptah at Memphis During the Kushite and the Saite-Persian Periods (c. 728?332 BC) -- $tConclusion -- $tIndex of Names 330 $aReligion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel. 606 $aHISTORY / Medieval$2bisacsh 608 $aConference papers and proceedings.$2lcgft 610 $aBrahmans. 610 $aoracles. 610 $apriests. 610 $aruler legitimacy. 615 7$aHISTORY / Medieval. 676 $a322.109 700 $aKubisch$b S$g(Sabine)$01461856 701 $aKlinkott$b Hilmar$0265965 712 02$aROOTS - Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies (EXC 2150)$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838177603321 996 $aPower of the Priests$93670685 997 $aUNINA