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" Kingship : "
Francis Oakley
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BL
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631722
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Oakley, Francis
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Kingship : : the politics of enchantment /\ Francis Oakley
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, MA ;Oxford :: Blackwell Pub.,, 2006
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New perspectives on the past
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xiii, 193 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0631226958
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: 0631226966
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: 9780631226956
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: 9780631226963
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Prologue : 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
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Kings and rulers-- History
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JC375.O35 2006
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