| ISBN |
9004228977 (hbk.) |
| 9789004228979 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Every inch a king : comparative studies on kings and kingship in the ancient and medieval worlds / edited by Lynette Mitchell and Charles Melville |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 |
| Physical desc. |
[xvii], 412 p. ; ill. (b&w), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Rulers and elites 2 |
| Note |
"This volume arose out of a conference held at Peterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge, in September 2008, in association with the Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Exeter" -- p. [xvii]. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'Every inch a king': kings and kingship in the ancient and medieval worlds / Lynette Mitchell and Charles Melville -- Defining the divine in Achaemenid Persian kingship: the view from Bisitun / Margaret Cool Root -- Xenophon's Cyropaedia: fictive history, political analysis and thinking with Iranian kings / Christopher Tuplin -- Alexander the Great: divinity and the rule of law / Lynette Mitchell -- Seleucus I, Zeus and Alexander / Kyle Erickson -- Machiavelli and Xenophon's Cyrus: searching for the modern conceptions of monarchy / Waller R. Newell -- Ruling 'virtually'? royal images in medieval English law books / Anthony Musson -- The anomolous king of conquered England / Laura Ashe -- Telling tales of adulterous queens in medieval England: from Olympias of Macedonia to Elizabeth Woodville / Joanna Laynesmith -- Royalty reflected in the Chronicles of Froissart / Peter Ainsworth -- Breaking and making tradition: Æthelstan, 'Abd-al-Rahman III and their panegyrists / Shane Bobrycki -- The king as subject, master and model of authority: the case of Alfonso X of Castile / Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo -- God and Caesar: the dynamics of Visigothic monarchy / Andrew Fear -- 'On the road again': kings, roads and accommodation in high medieval Germany / John W. Bernhardt -- Ruling from the outside: a new perspective on early Turkish kingship in Iran / David Durand-Guédy -- The royal image in Mongol Iran / Charles Melville -- Architecture and the representations of kingship during the reign of the Safavid Shah ʿAbbas I / Kishwar Rizvi. |
| Subject |
Kings and rulers -- History |
| Kings and rulers, Ancient |
| Kings and rulers, Medieval |
| Added name(s) |
Mitchell, Lynette G. (Lynette Gail) 1966- |
| Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter) 1951- |
