The Emperor S House

Author : Michael Featherstone,Jean-Michel Spieser,Gülru Tanman,Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783110382280

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The Emperor's House by Michael Featherstone,Jean-Michel Spieser,Gülru Tanman,Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt Pdf

Evolving from a patrician domus, the emperor's residence on the Palatine became the centre of the state administration. Elaborate ceremonial regulated access to the imperial family, creating a system of privilege which strengthened the centralised power. Constantine followed the same model in his new capital, under a Christian veneer. The divine attributes of the imperial office were refashioned, with the emperor as God's representative. The palace was an imitation of heaven. Following the loss of the empire in the West and the Near East, the Palace in Constantinople was preserved– subject to the transition from Late Antique to Mediaeval conditions – until the Fourth Crusade, attracting the attention of Visgothic, Lombard, Merovingian, Carolingian, Norman and Muslim rulers. Renaissance princes later drew inspiration for their residences directly from ancient ruins and Roman literature, but there was also contact with the Late Byzantine court. Finally, in the age of Absolutism the palace became again an instrument of power in vast centralised states, with renewed interest in Roman and Byzantine ceremonial. Spanning the broadest chronological and geographical limits of the Roman imperial tradition, from the Principate to the Ottoman empire, the papers in the volume treat various aspects of palace architecture, art and ceremonial.

Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445634395

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The Emperors by Gareth Russell Pdf

On 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated on a visit to Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip. The assassination set in motion the events that led to the outbreak of the First World War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and a trauma that would bring down the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ending nearly eight centuries of Hapsburg rule and unleashing unrest across the European continent. By the end of that conflict, not only had the Austro-Hungarian Empire crumbled but the other two imperial rulers of Europe, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, had lost their grip on power. The three great monarchies of Europe had fallen. Only in Britain would the ruler of an empire, George V, the first cousin of both the Kaiser and the Tsar, successfully retain the crown. In this new book, Gareth Russell tells the story of the Austrian, German and Russian imperial families during the four years of the First World War and the political and personal struggles that brought about their ruin.

Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047442257

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The Emperors of Modern Japan by Ben-Ami Shillony Pdf

The book offers a fascinating picture of the four emperors of modern Japan, their institution, their personalities and their impact on the history of their country. Leading scholars from Japan and other countries have contributed essays which treat this subject from various angles.

Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004213999

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Enigma of the Emperors by Ben-Ami Shillony Pdf

This important new and original study on the institution of the Japanese emperors focuses on the enigma of the institution itself, namely, the extraordinary continuity of the Japanese dynasty, which is unknown anywhere else in the world, yet which is now at risk on account of more recent laws of succession.

Author : Jean-Henri Schnitzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015070402469

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Secret History of the Court and Government of Russia Under the Emperors Alexander and Nicholas by Jean-Henri Schnitzler Pdf

Author : CS Richardson
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385670913

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The Emperor of Paris by CS Richardson Pdf

Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery, and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away, Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre, trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores and the stories she reads. The two might never have met, but for a curious chain of coincidences involving a mysterious traveller, an impoverished painter, a jaded bookseller, and a book of fairytales, lost and found . . .

Author : Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052092679X

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The Last Emperors by Evelyn S. Rawski Pdf

The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new interpretation of the remarkable success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture, as has previously been believed, but rather from an artful synthesis of Manchu leadership styles with Han Chinese policies.

Author : Adrastos Omissi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192558268

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Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire by Adrastos Omissi Pdf

One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize barely half of these men as 'legitimate' rulers and more than two thirds died at their subjects' hands. Once established in power, a new ruler needed to publicly legitimate himself and to discredit his predecessor: overt criticism of the new regime became high treason, with historians supressing their accounts for fear of reprisals and the very names of defeated emperors chiselled from public inscriptions and deleted from official records. In a period of such chaos, how can we ever hope to record in any fair or objective way the history of the Roman state? Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire is the first history of civil war in the later Roman Empire to be written in English and aims to address this question by focusing on the various ways in which successive imperial dynasties attempted to legitimate themselves and to counter the threat of almost perpetual internal challenge to their rule. Panegyric in particular emerges as a crucial tool for understanding the rapidly changing political world of the third and fourth centuries, providing direct evidence of how, in the wake of civil wars, emperors attempted to publish their legitimacy and to delegitimize their enemies. The ceremony and oratory surrounding imperial courts too was of great significance: used aggressively to dramatize and constantly recall the events of recent civil wars, the narratives produced by the court in this context also went on to have enormous influence on the messages and narratives found within contemporary historical texts. In its exploration of the ways in which successive imperial courts sought to communicate with their subjects, this volume offers a thoroughly original reworking of late Roman domestic politics, and demonstrates not only how history could be erased, rewritten, and repurposed, but also how civil war, and indeed usurpation, became endemic to the later Empire.

Author : J. B. Benkard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Emperors
ISBN : BSB:BSB11338439

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Historical Sketch of the German Emperors and Kings by J. B. Benkard Pdf

Author : Kaldellis Anthony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004344693

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Genesios on the Reigns of the Emperors by Kaldellis Anthony Pdf

Preliminary Material /Anthony Kaldellis -- Introduction /Anthony Kaldellis -- Genesios, On the Reigns of the Emperors (813-886) /Anthony Kaldellis -- Translator's Note: Theophobos and Manuel /Anthony Kaldellis -- Patriarchs of Constantinople, 784-893 /Anthony Kaldellis -- Maps /Anthony Kaldellis -- Glossary of Terms, Places, and Peoples /Anthony Kaldellis -- Bibliography /Anthony Kaldellis -- Index /Anthony Kaldellis.

Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781479516346

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The Emperor's Painting by Jessica Gunderson Pdf

Han Li thinks he is the smartest poet and most talented painter in China. His master, Lin Cho, tries to warn him about his arrogance, but Han Li does not listen. When Lin Cho becomes ill before he can finish his painting for the emperor, what will Han Li do?

Author : Dawson Massy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Emperors
ISBN : OXFORD:600074721

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A History of the Romans Under the Emperors by Dawson Massy Pdf

Author : Donald J. Raleigh,A.A. Iskenderov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317457183

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The Emperors and Empresses of Russia by Donald J. Raleigh,A.A. Iskenderov Pdf

Since glasnost began, Russia's most eminent historians have taken advantage of new archival access and the end of censorship and conformity to reassess and reinterpret their history. Through this process they are linking up with Russia's great historiographic tradition while producing work that is fresh and modern. In "The Emperors and Empresses of Russia", renowned Russian historians tell the story of the Romanovs as complex individual personalities and as key institutional actors in Russian history, from the empire builder Peter I to the last tsar, Nicholas II. These portraits are contributions to the writing of history, partaking neither of wooden ideologisation nor of naive romanticisation.

Author : Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Emperors
ISBN : MINN:319510024056432

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The History of the Roman Emperors by Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier Pdf

Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198736820

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Emperors and Ancestors by Olivier Hekster Pdf

This is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which Roman imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Rather than focusing on individual rulers of the Roman Empire, it evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations of power over a prolonged period of time.