Monarchies 1000-2000Reaktion Books, 2004年4月1日 - 320 頁 Monarchies 1000 –2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in scope and comparative in approach, W. M. Spellman's survey establishes connections between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts across a millennium when the system was without serious rival. Spellman examines the intellectual assumptions behind different models of monarchy, tracing the ways in which each of these assumptions shifted in response to historical factors. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly in the modern period, monarchy's remarkable longevity invites us to weigh the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as constants of the human experience. |
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第 10 頁
... royal office at the close of the twentieth century , and with most of these embodying little more than ceremonial sig- nificance , the monarchical idea appears today as but a pale reflection of its former self . And we need not look too ...
... royal office at the close of the twentieth century , and with most of these embodying little more than ceremonial sig- nificance , the monarchical idea appears today as but a pale reflection of its former self . And we need not look too ...
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... was effected by anchoring the institution of royal authority in a deeply religious culture . From living deities in Ancient Egypt , to direct descendants of the divine in China , Japan and Peru , to human 12 MONARCHIES 1000-2000.
... was effected by anchoring the institution of royal authority in a deeply religious culture . From living deities in Ancient Egypt , to direct descendants of the divine in China , Japan and Peru , to human 12 MONARCHIES 1000-2000.
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... royal grants of local self - governance . The individuals within this governing class were engaged in a near - constant struggle to improve their individual and family wealth and status , and feuding was anything but exceptional . A ...
... royal grants of local self - governance . The individuals within this governing class were engaged in a near - constant struggle to improve their individual and family wealth and status , and feuding was anything but exceptional . A ...
第 21 頁
... royal officeholder . As a result an internal ' balance of forces ' was often created whereby monarchical prerogative was in constant tension with aristocratic localism . This dynamic and fluid relationship continued to set practical ...
... royal officeholder . As a result an internal ' balance of forces ' was often created whereby monarchical prerogative was in constant tension with aristocratic localism . This dynamic and fluid relationship continued to set practical ...
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... royal authority by an aggressive policy of road and canal building , military expansion , authoritarian legal reform , standardization of weights , measures , coinage and even axle lengths . The bulk of these imperial projects proceeded ...
... royal authority by an aggressive policy of road and canal building , military expansion , authoritarian legal reform , standardization of weights , measures , coinage and even axle lengths . The bulk of these imperial projects proceeded ...
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Monarchy without Manuscripts SubSaharan Africa and the Americas | 71 |
Theocratic Monarchy Byzantium and the Islamic Lands | 105 |
The European Anomaly 10001500 | 147 |
Monarchy and European Hegemony 15001914 | 189 |
Endings and Remnants Monarchy in the Twentieth Century | 225 |
Monarchy and the State in the TwentyFirst Century | 269 |
References | 277 |
Bibliography | 295 |
Index | 304 |
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