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Empty bottles of gentilism : kingship and the divine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (to 1050) / Francis Oakley.

By: Oakley, FrancisMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The emergence of Western political thought in the Latin Middle Ages ; v. 1Publication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010. Description: xiii, 306 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780300155389 (cloth : alk. paper); 0300155387 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Kings and rulers -- History -- To 1500 | Church and state -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 | Middle AgesDDC classification: 321/.6 LOC classification: JC375 | .O34 2010
Contents:
Prologomenon: the cosmic kingship in Mediterranean antiquity. Historical orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and roman antiquity ; Ancient affections: the archaic pattern of royal sacrality and the Hellenistic legacy ; Abrahamic departures: the Hebraic and Christian contribution -- The long twilight of the sacral kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 300-c.1050). Historical orientation: the heirs of Rome ; Patristic affirmation: the Greek fathers and the Eusebian tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russia ; Patristic reservation: the Latin fathers from Tertullain to Augustine ; The early Medieval west (i): sacral kingship in the Germanic successor kingdoms ; The early Medieval west (ii): fidelity, consent, and the emergence of "feudal" institutions -- The early Medieval west (iii): the clerical order and the rise of the papal monarchy.
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Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 61 - Reading Room 		H2nn OAKLE 30647 Not for loan BOOKS-000000023550

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologomenon: the cosmic kingship in Mediterranean antiquity. Historical orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and roman antiquity ; Ancient affections: the archaic pattern of royal sacrality and the Hellenistic legacy ; Abrahamic departures: the Hebraic and Christian contribution -- The long twilight of the sacral kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 300-c.1050). Historical orientation: the heirs of Rome ; Patristic affirmation: the Greek fathers and the Eusebian tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russia ; Patristic reservation: the Latin fathers from Tertullain to Augustine ; The early Medieval west (i): sacral kingship in the Germanic successor kingdoms ; The early Medieval west (ii): fidelity, consent, and the emergence of "feudal" institutions -- The early Medieval west (iii): the clerical order and the rise of the papal monarchy.