Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional SocietiesDavid Cannadine, Simon Price Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. The essays in this book - all specially written for it - address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, namely the relation between power and anthropologists, and the traditional societies examined range from ancient Babylon to nineteenth-century Madagascar, from medieval Europe to contemporary Ghana. |
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... human activity . For them , political action and political rhetoric include : such artifacts as buildings and city planning , painting and sculpture , flags and costumes ; such beliefs as those concerning the divine , magical and sacred ...
... human activity . For them , political action and political rhetoric include : such artifacts as buildings and city planning , painting and sculpture , flags and costumes ; such beliefs as those concerning the divine , magical and sacred ...
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... human and divine . 12 For the early modern period , the pageantry of politics and the politics of pageantry have been extensively studied : in Tudor and Stuart England , in the great courts of western Europe , and in the republics and ...
... human and divine . 12 For the early modern period , the pageantry of politics and the politics of pageantry have been extensively studied : in Tudor and Stuart England , in the great courts of western Europe , and in the republics and ...
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... human societies : of growth and development , change and decay , evolution and revo- lution . And they want to explain how things worked : not just in terms which contemporaries could understand then , but also in terms which we can ...
... human societies : of growth and development , change and decay , evolution and revo- lution . And they want to explain how things worked : not just in terms which contemporaries could understand then , but also in terms which we can ...
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... human activity outside the scope of most professional historians , whose interests are overwhelmingly con- centrated in Europe since the sixteenth century . Accordingly , they are devoted to the pre - industrial and the pre - modern ...
... human activity outside the scope of most professional historians , whose interests are overwhelmingly con- centrated in Europe since the sixteenth century . Accordingly , they are devoted to the pre - industrial and the pre - modern ...
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... human individual , but only to the monarch as the holder of an office . And that power is obtained by contact with the stool , for the simple reason that that is where the citizens of the kingdom believe royal power to reside . THE ...
... human individual , but only to the monarch as the holder of an office . And that power is obtained by contact with the stool , for the simple reason that that is where the citizens of the kingdom believe royal power to reside . THE ...
Contents
Usurpation conquest and ceremonial from Babylon to Persia | 20 |
From noble funerals to divine cult the consecration of Roman Emperors | 56 |
The construction of court ritual the Byzantine Book of Ceremonies | 106 |
The Lords anointed and the peoples choice Carolingian royal ritual | 137 |
Bureaucrats and cosmology the ritual code of Tang China | 181 |
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Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies David Cannadine,S. R. F. Price No preview available - 1987 |
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Akuapem Akuropon ancestors Ankobea Annales Bertiniani anointing apotheosis Assurbanipal Augustus Averil Cameron Babylon Babylonian Black Stools blessing body Book of Ceremonies Brahman Byzantine Byzantium Caesar Campus Martius Carolingian celebrated Charlemagne Charles Charles the Bald Christian church Confucian consecration Constantine VII context court CTS ch cult Cyrus death deities destoolment divine divus dynasty eighth century Einhard élite emperor empire festival Frankish Franks gifts of land gods heaven hierarchy History honours Hsüan imperial funerals important king king's kingdom kingship London Louis the Pious Marduk medieval Merina Merovingian mohar rājā Nabonidus Nepal offered official palace period person political priest pyre realm recipient reign religious gifts rites ritual code role Roman Rome royal bath royal ritual ruler sacrifices samvat Sargon II scholars senate social society status symbolic T'ang Tang Taoism temple tenurial THY ch tomb tsung TT ch TTKYL ch TTLT ch Vazimba vols