Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power : The King's Body Never Dies / edited by Karolina Mroziewicz and Aleksander Sroczyński.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mroziewicz, Karolina, editor.

Sroczyński, Aleksander, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kings and rulers--History.

Kings and rulers.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Premodern Rulership

Assembly Politics and Conflicting Discourses in Early Medieval León (10th-11th c.) / Álvaro Carvajal Castro Castro, Álvaro Carvajal 21

The Supreme Power of the Armour and the Veneration of the Emperor's Body in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Foteini Spingou Spingou, Foteini 47

The Exultet of Boleslaw II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages / Pawel Figurski Figurski, Pawel 73

'International' Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth-Century Latin Christendom / Wojciech Kozlowski Kozlowski, Wojciech 111

The King's Immature Body: Representations of Child Coronations in Poland, Hungary and Bohemia (1382-1530) / Karolina Mroziewicz Mroziewicz, Karolina 139

We Were the Trojans: Rhetoric and Political Community in Medieval and Early Modern Sarmatia and Illyria / Aleksander Sroczynski Sroczynski, Aleksander 169

The Life and Afterlife of Pontifical Indiscretions in the Renaissance / Ágnes Máté Máté, Ágnes 193

The Queen's Two Faces: The Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England / Emilia Olecknowicz Olecknowicz, Emilia 217

Part 2 Contemporary Political Power

Blood, Honour and the Norm: Race Defilement and the Boundaries of Community in Hungary, 1941 / Gábor Szegedi Szegedi, Gábor 249

Dual Approaches to Communist Engagement: Helena Krajewska and Marek Wlodarski / Piotr Slodkowski Slodkowski, Piotr 279

The Supermen's Two Bodies: The Body, the Costume, and the Legitimacy of Power in the DC Universe Narratives / Andrzej Probulski Probulski, Andrzej 299

And Then They Were Bodies: Medieval Royalties, from DNA Analysis to a Nation's Identity / Alexandra Ion Ion, Alexandra 321.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789462983311

9462983313

OCLC:

979568126