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The Two Eyes of the Earth - Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran
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The Two Eyes of the Earth - Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian IranThe Two Eyes of the Earth - Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran

This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires.
 
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Tags: Roman, Persian, emerged, kingship, sacred, Earth, between, Sasanian, Ritual, Kingship
Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian MesopotamiaWriting, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts.  
 
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Tags: Mesopotamia, Babylonian, invention, writing, 2200-1600, Kingship, Writing, culture
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI
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Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VIKingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI

This book is a reconstruction of the kingship and politics of the third Tudor king of England, Edward VI (born 1537), who reigned between 1547 (from the age of nine) until his death in 1553. The reign has often been interpreted as a period of political instability, mainly because of the king's age. This book explores how the reign was remarkably stable; and also how, during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) the Edwardian idea of what it was to be a monarch--and many of the same men who had served Edward VI as councillors and courtiers--dominated Tudor politics.
 
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Tags: Edward, reign, Tudor, politics, 1558-1603, Kingship, Politics
The New Solomon - Robert of Naples 1309 - 1343 and Fourteenth-Century Kingship
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The New Solomon - Robert of Naples 1309 - 1343 and Fourteenth-Century KingshipThe New Solomon - Robert of Naples 1309 - 1343 and Fourteenth-Century Kingship

The first full-length study of Robert of Naples' reign in over seventy years, this volume analyzes Robert's policies and image in the context of larger shifts in rulership from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.Treating kingship as a joint enterprise of king and court, it draws on an interdisciplinary range of sources from chronicles, sermons, popular poetry, and works of art to diplomatic and archival records, to reassess the major issues of his reign and underscore the importance of image-making and negotiation to his rule.
 
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Tags: Robert, reign, Naples, poetry, works, Kingship, Solomon
The Idea of Britain and the Origins of Scottish Independence: From the Picts to Alexander III
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The Idea of Britain and the Origins of Scottish Independence: From the Picts to Alexander IIIThe Idea of Britain and the Origins of Scottish Independence: From the Picts to Alexander III

This book challenges the belief that the Scots were an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era. In fact, the idea of Scotland as an independent kingdom was older than the age of Wallace and Bruce. Dauvit Broun radically reassesses a range of fundamental issues: the fate of Pictish identity and the origins of Alba, the status of Scottish kingship vis-A-vis England, the papacy's recognition of the independence of the Scottish Church, and the idea of Scottish freedom.
 
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Tags: Scottish, identity, kingship, vis-A-vis, England, Britain, Alexander, Picts