Gabor Klaniczay, G. Bor Klaniczay

Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses

Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of medieval Hungarian and central European royal saints.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 976g
• ISBN-13: 9780521420181
• ISBN-10: 0521420180
• Artikelnr.: 29339028

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of genealogical tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. From god-king to sacral kingship
2. Martyr kings and blessed queens of the Early Middle Ages
3. Rex iustus: the saintly institutor of Christian kingship
4. The chaste prince and the athleta patriae
5. Saintly princesses and their 'heavenly courts'
6. The cult of dynastic saints as propaganda: the Angevin-Luxemburg synthesis
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.