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Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power : The King's Body Never Dies / ed. by Karolina Anna Mroziewicz, Aleksander Sroczynski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Central European Medieval Studies ; 1Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) : 5 color plates, 4 halftones, 1 line drawingContent type:
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  • 9789462983311
  • 9789048533282
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.1
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Premodern Rulership -- Assembly Politics and Conflicting Discourses in Early Medieval León (10th-11th c.) -- The Supreme Power of the Armour and the Veneration of the Emperor's Body in Twelfth-Century Byzantium -- The Exultet of Bolesław II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages -- 'International' Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth- Century Latin Christendom -- The King's Immature Body -- We Were the Trojans -- The Life and Afterlife of Pontifical Indiscretions in the Renaissance -- The Queen's Two Faces -- Part 2 Contemporary Political Power -- Blood, Honour and the Norm -- Dual Approaches to Communist Engagement -- The Supermen's Two Bodies -- And Then They Were Bodies -- List of Figures -- General Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the medieval period, the monarch was seen as the embodiment of the community of his kingdom, the body politic. And while we've long since shed that view, it nonetheless continues to influence our understanding of contemporary politics. This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations-bodies politic-were and continue to be constructed and challenged. Drawing on history, archaeology, literary criticism, and art history, the contributors survey a wide geographical and chronological spectrum to offer a panoramic view of these dynamic political entities.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Premodern Rulership -- Assembly Politics and Conflicting Discourses in Early Medieval León (10th-11th c.) -- The Supreme Power of the Armour and the Veneration of the Emperor's Body in Twelfth-Century Byzantium -- The Exultet of Bolesław II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages -- 'International' Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth- Century Latin Christendom -- The King's Immature Body -- We Were the Trojans -- The Life and Afterlife of Pontifical Indiscretions in the Renaissance -- The Queen's Two Faces -- Part 2 Contemporary Political Power -- Blood, Honour and the Norm -- Dual Approaches to Communist Engagement -- The Supermen's Two Bodies -- And Then They Were Bodies -- List of Figures -- General Bibliography -- Index

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In the medieval period, the monarch was seen as the embodiment of the community of his kingdom, the body politic. And while we've long since shed that view, it nonetheless continues to influence our understanding of contemporary politics. This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations-bodies politic-were and continue to be constructed and challenged. Drawing on history, archaeology, literary criticism, and art history, the contributors survey a wide geographical and chronological spectrum to offer a panoramic view of these dynamic political entities.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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