Minor Majesties - Gillet, Valérie
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Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluv¿r, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively surveys four temples dedicated to the god ¿iva that were built during this period, combining in-depth analyses of their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. Through these, Gillet provides a better understanding of the complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning as well as how these religious monuments became a place for the fabrication of political…mehr

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Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluv¿r, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively surveys four temples dedicated to the god ¿iva that were built during this period, combining in-depth analyses of their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. Through these, Gillet provides a better understanding of the complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning as well as how these religious monuments became a place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices.
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Autorenporträt
Valérie Gillet is a specialist on South India. In 2007, she joined the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO); she was posted in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO between 2007 and 2016, and has been based in Paris since 2017. Gillet works primarily with material culture and Tamil epigraphy of the first millennium found on the territories of P¿¿¿ya and Pallava dynasties, covering almost the entire Tamil-speaking South.