The King's Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
by Sergio Bertelli
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"The King's Body offers an overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I show more and Louis XVI."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Hardcover book about the rituals and court organizations of the middle ages, renaissance and, presumably, later periods. From Margriet Tindemans
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- Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality, Anthropology, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
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- 321.6 — Society, government, & culture Political science Systems of governments and states Absolute monarchy [formerly : Absolutism]
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- JC375 .B4613 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Forms of the state
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