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Subject(s)

• Kings and rulers—History [Browse]

Editor

• Mroziewicz, Karolina Anna, 1983- [Browse]
• Sroczyński, Aleksander [Browse]

Series

• Central European medieval studies ; 1. [More in this series]
• Central European medieval studies ; 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction / Figurski, Paweł / Mroziewicz, Karolina / Sroczyński, Aleksander
• Part 1 Premodern Rulership
• Assembly Politics and Conflicting Discourses in Early Medieval León (10th-11th c.) / Castro, Álvaro Carvajal
• The Supreme Power of the Armour and the Veneration of the Emperor's Body in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Spingou, Foteini
• The Exultet of Bolesław II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages / Figurski, Paweł
• 'International' Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth- Century Latin Christendom / Kozłowski, Wojciech
• The King's Immature Body / Mroziewicz, Karolina
• We Were the Trojans / Sroczyński, Aleksander
• The Life and Afterlife of Pontifical Indiscretions in the Renaissance / Máté, Ágnes
• The Queen's Two Faces / Olechnowicz, Emilia
• Part 2 Contemporary Political Power
• Blood, Honour and the Norm / Szegedi, Gábor
• Dual Approaches to Communist Engagement / Słodkowski, Piotr
• The Supermen's Two Bodies / Probulski, Andrzej
• And Then They Were Bodies / Ion, Alexandra
• List of Figures
• General Bibliography
• Index

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 90-485-5131-5
• 90-485-3328-7

OCLC

1019679056

Doi

• 10.1515/9789048533282

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