ISBN:
0511355637
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9780511355639
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 358 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Court and court society in ancient monarchies
DDC:
395.5
Keywords:
Courts and courtiers
;
Kings and rulers, Ancient
;
Monarchy
;
REFERENCE ; Etiquette
;
Courts and courtiers
;
Kings and rulers, Ancient
;
Monarchy
;
Höfische Kultur
;
Monarchie
;
Hofcultuur
;
Oudheid
;
Kongress
;
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2004)
;
Alte Welt
;
Konferenzschrift 2004
;
Konferenzschrift 2004
;
Konferenzschrift 2004
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including their organisation and physical setting, their role as a vehicle for display, and their place in monarchial structures of power and control. This approach is broadly inspired by work on courts in later periods of history, especially early-modern France. The case studies confirm that ancient monarchies created the conditions for the emergence of a court and court society. The culturally specific conditions in which these monarchies functioned meant variety in the character of the ruler's court from one society to another
Abstract:
New out of old? Court and court ceremonies in Achaemenid Persia / Maria Brosius -- King, court and royal representation in the Sasanian empire / Josef Wiesehöfer -- The court of Alexander the Great between Europe and Asia / Tony Spawforth -- Friends in high places : the creation of the court of the Roman emperor / Jeremy Paterson -- The imperial court of the late Roman empire, c. AD 300-c. AD 450 / Rowland Smith -- The imperial court in Han China / Hans van Ess -- Court and palace in ancient Egypt : the Armana period and later eighteenth dynasty / Kate Spence.
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