Kingship : the politics of enchantment /

• Oakley, Francis.

• Kings and rulers -- History.

• Blackwell Pub,

• New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher)

• 0631226958 (paperback) :
• 9780631226956 (paperback) :
• 0631226966 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780631226963 (pbk. : alk. paper)

• 19.99
• 19.99

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Preface List of Illustrations Prologue: Matters of Perspective 1. Gate of the Gods: Archaic and Global Patterns of Cosmic Kingship 2. Royal Saviors and Shepherds: Hellenistic, Roman, Biblical, and Qur'anic views of Kingship 3. The Eusebian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in Imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia 4. The Carolingian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in the Germanic Successor Kingdoms of Western Europe 5. Sacral Kingship in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: Papal, Imperial, National 6. The Fading Nimbus: Modern Kingship and its Fate in a Disenchanted World Epilogue: Survivals and Revivals Notes Index

• Criminal law and society in late medieval and Tudor England
• making of Europe conquest colonization and cultural change 950 1350
• two cities medieval Europe 1050 1320
• Edward IV a sourcebook
• Henry VII
• cult of kingship in Anglo Saxon England the transition from paganism to Christianity
• Russia the tsarist and Soviet legacy
• convert kings power and religious affiliation in early Anglo Saxon England
• Belief and unbelief in medieval Europe
• Three faces of fascism Action Francaise Italian fascism National Socialism
• Russian revolution
• making of Britain The Dark Ages
• Tudor nobility
• Keywords a vocabulary of culture and society
• Judicial punishment in England
• Henry VII the importance of his reign in English history
• Tudor regime
• Reformation and the English people
• peoples war Britain 1939 45
• Third Republic in France 1870 1940 conflicts and continuities
• England in conflict 1603 1660 kingdom community commonwealth
• Early Tudor government 1485 1558
• Anglo Saxon age c 400 1042
• French fascism the second wave 1933 1939
• Order and disorder in early modern England
• Alfred the Great Assers Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources
• Democracy
• fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
• Religion and the decline of magic studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
• English court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War
• Edwardian England 1901 15 society and politics
• mid Tudor crisis 1545 1565
• Wars of the Roses politics and the constitution in England c 1437 1509
• Nazism 1919 1945 The rise to power 1919 1934 a documentary reader
• English rising of 1381
• fourteenth century 1307 1399
• Britains decline problems and perspectives
• Black death
• Peasants Revolt of 1381
• Imagined communities reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
• Church and society in late medieval England
• Modern Britain since 1906 a reader
• Plague population and the English economy 1348 1530
• Twentieth century Britain economic social and cultural change
• Britain on the breadline a social and political history of Britain between the wars