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The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings' burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next generation. In most cases, new rulers celebrated their predecessor's memory and honored his corpse to emphasize continuity and strengthen their claims to the throne. Those who rose by conquest or regicide, in contrast, often desecrated the bodies of deposed royalty or relegated them to anonymous graves in attempts to brand their predecessors as tyrants unworthy of ruling a Christian nation. By delegitimizing the previous ruler, they justified their own accession. At a time when hereditary succession was not guaranteed and few accessions went unchallenged, the king's body was a commodity that royal candidates fought to control.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Nicole Marafioti |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Release |
: 2014-01-01 |
File |
: 319 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781442647589 |
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The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Sergio Bertelli |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Release |
: 2010-11 |
File |
: 322 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271041391 |
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First published in 1994. The term 'Canopic', as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken identity. The aims of this monograph are primarily archaeological and historical, to document all canopic equipment attributable to the kings of Egypt, and to discuss each element in its spatial and temporal context. Translations of all available texts are provided, but no attempt is made to discuss them from a detailed religious or philological standpoint.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Aidan Dodson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-10-28 |
File |
: 287 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781136158148 |
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This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work's original publication in the 1760s down to the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars, and intellectual and legal historians trace the manner in which this truly seminal text has established its authority well beyond the author's native shores or his own limited lifespan. In the first section, 'Words and Visions', Kathryn Temple, Simon Stern, Cristina S Martinez and Michael Meehan discuss the Commentaries' aesthetic and literary qualities as factors contributing to the work's unique status in Anglo-American legal culture. The second group of essays traces the nature and dimensions of Blackstone's impact in various jurisdictions outside England, namely Quebec (Michel Morin), Louisiana and the United States more generally (John W Cairns and Stephen M Sheppard), North Carolina (John V Orth) and Australasia (Wilfrid Prest). Finally Horst Dippel, Paul Halliday and Ruth Paley examine aspects of Blackstone's influential constitutional and political ideas, while Jessie Allen concludes the volume with a personal account of 'Reading Blackstone in the Twenty-First Century and the Twenty-First Century through Blackstone'. This volume is a sequel to the well-received collection Blackstone and his Commentaries: Biography, Law, History (Hart Publishing, 2009).
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: Law |
Author |
: Wilfrid Prest |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2014-12-01 |
File |
: 262 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781782254591 |
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: William Shakespeare |
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: |
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: 1877 |
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: 508 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000086815572 |
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: 1896 |
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: 568 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NLI:2801925-30 |
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Genre |
: Bible |
Author |
: Robert Jamieson |
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: |
Release |
: 1884 |
File |
: 1032 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015064580643 |
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Genre |
: Art |
Author |
: Charles Ryan |
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: |
Release |
: 1894 |
File |
: 140 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:$B292706 |
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: William (of Malmesbury) |
Publisher |
: Llanerch Publishers |
Release |
: 1989 |
File |
: 236 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105017418638 |
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: 1878 |
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: 804 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: ONB:+Z267500708 |