Premodern rulership and contemporary political power

• Titel: Premodern rulership and contemporary political power
• Titelzusatz: the King's body never dies
• Mitwirkende: Mroziewicz, Karolina Anna [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Sroczyński, Aleksander [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Karolina Anna Mroziewicz and Aleksander Sroczyński
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: 429 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Central European medieval studies
• ISBN: 978-94-6298-331-1
• ISBN: 94-6298-331-3
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power
• K10plus-PPN: 162627746X

Abstract

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