European Monarchy: Its Evolution and Practice from Roman Antiquity to Modern Times (German Edition) [Hardcover]

Heinz Duchhardt (Editor), Richard A. Jackson (Editor)

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Publication Date: December 1, 1992 | ISBN-10: 3515062335 | ISBN-13: 978-3515062336

Aus dem Inhalt: E. Frezouls: De la maiestas populi Romani a la majeste imperiale u B. Bedos-Rezak: Ritual in the Royal Chancery: Text, Image, and the Representation of Kingship in Medieval French Diplomas (700-1200) u S. Bagge: Kingship in Medieval Norway. Ideal and Reality u D. Sadler: The King as Subject, the King as Author: Art and Politics of Louis IX u G. Klaniczay: Representations of the Evil Ruler in the Middle Ages u G. Melville: Herauts et heros u M.D. Birnbaum: Matthias Corvinus in Humanist and Popular Perspective u M.S. Flier: The Iconography of Royal Procession: Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite Palm Sunday Ritual u L. M. Bryant: Politics, Ceremonies, and Embodiments of Majesty in Henry II's France u H. Weber: Das aToucher Royalo in Frankreich zur Zeit Heinrichs IV. und Ludwigs XIII. u D. J. Sturdy: The Royal Touch in England u A. Wolf: Ein aComico fur den Kaiser u A. Guery: L'Image perdue des Rois de France (XVIIIe-XXe siecle) u D. E. Barclay: Ritual, Ceremonial, and the oInventiono of a Monarchical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Prussia. (Franz Steiner 1992)

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Text: English, French, German

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• Hardcover: 222 pages
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag (December 1, 1992)
• Language: German
• ISBN-10: 3515062335
• ISBN-13: 978-3515062336
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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4.0 out of 5 stars An interest and novel approach to the ritual aspects of kingship, January 24, 2012

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This review is from: European Monarchy: Its Evolution and Practice from Roman Antiquity to Modern Times (German Edition) (Hardcover)

This collection includes fourteen papers selected from those presented at the 2nd International Conference on Rulership in 1990, sponsored by an organization of scholars with what is to me a slightly odd specialty: The ceremonial institutions and ritual displays surrounding monarchs and other hereditary rulers, especially coronations, which combine religious observance with public relations. Almost none of the contributors is especially well-known in the wider (though still relatively narrow) field of aristocracy and peerage studies, though they come from academic institutions throughout the Western world, and their approaches tend to be theoretical rather than descriptively historical. The principal theme is that conceptions of rulership have not remained static but have changed over time, both by slow evolution and through sudden change, and always within the context of contemporary social and political needs. Though the collection's title demarcates its limits, the range of topics is quite broad. Edmond Frézouls, for instance, shows that the concept of "majesty" arose not during the Roman imperium but under the preceding Republic, while Lawrence Bryant restricts himself to a consideration of the image of the king in early modern France -- specifically Henry II in 1549. Michael Flyer investigates the religious rituals in use during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, while David Sturdy recounts the development of "Touching for the King's Evil" (i.e., the relief of scrofula). It's an interesting gathering of viewpoints regarding the mystical and iconographical aspects of kingship. About one-third of the papers are in French or German, by the way.