Premodern rulership and contemporary political power : the king's body never dies / edited by Karolina Mroziewicz and Aleksander Sroczyński.
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 an...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Central European medieval studies ;
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