Monarchies 1000-2000
"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 including expanding literacy, the development of modern science and the growth of rationalism, and the decline of institutional religion. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly as monarchy in the modern period, the system's remarkable longevity invites us to weigh the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as constants of the human experience."--Jacket
History
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9781780230078, 1780230079
865509081
Preface
Introduction: the idea of monarchy
1. Asianarchetypes: Chinese absolutism and Japanese symbolism
2. Monarchy without manuscripts: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas
3. Theocratic monarchy: Byzantium and the Islamic lands
4. The European anomaly, 1000-1500
5. Monarchy and European hegemony, 1500-1914
6. Endings and remnants: monarchy in the twentieth century
7. Monarchy and the state in the twenty-first century
References
Bibliography
Index
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