The King S Other Body

Author : Theresa Earenfight
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812201833

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The King's Other Body by Theresa Earenfight Pdf

Queen María of Castile, wife of Alfonso V, "the Magnanimous," king of the Crown of Aragon, governed Catalunya in the mid-fifteenth century while her husband conquered and governed the kingdom of Naples. For twenty-six years, she maintained a royal court and council separate from and roughly equivalent to those of Alfonso in Naples. Such legitimately sanctioned political authority is remarkable given that she ruled not as queen in her own right but rather as Lieutenant-General of Catalunya with powers equivalent to the king's. María does not fit conventional images of a queen as wife and mother; indeed, she had no children and so never served as queen-regent for any royal heirs in their minorities or exercised a queen-mother's privilege to act as diplomat when arranging the marriages of her children and grandchildren. But she was clearly more than just a wife offering advice: she embodied the king's personal authority and was second only to the king himself. She was his alter ego, the other royal body fully empowered to govern. For a medieval queen, this official form of corulership, combining exalted royal status with official political appointment, was rare and striking. The King's Other Body is both a biography of María and an analysis of her political partnership with Alfonso. María's long, busy tenure as lieutenant prompts a reconsideration of long-held notions of power, statecraft, personalities, and institutions. It is also a study of the institution of monarchy and a theoretical reconsideration of the operations of gender within it. If the practice of monarchy is conventionally understood as strictly a man's job, María's reign presents a compelling argument for a more complex model, one attentive to the dynamic relationship of queenship and kingship and the circumstances and theories that shaped the institution she inhabited.

Author : Nicole Marafioti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442668706

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The King's Body by Nicole Marafioti Pdf

The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings’ burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next generation. In most cases, new rulers celebrated their predecessor’s memory and honored his corpse to emphasize continuity and strengthen their claims to the throne. Those who rose by conquest or regicide, in contrast, often desecrated the bodies of deposed royalty or relegated them to anonymous graves in attempts to brand their predecessors as tyrants unworthy of ruling a Christian nation. By delegitimizing the previous ruler, they justified their own accession. At a time when hereditary succession was not guaranteed and few accessions went unchallenged, the king’s body was a commodity that royal candidates fought to control.

Author : Nicole Marafioti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442647589

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The King's Body by Nicole Marafioti Pdf

The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings' burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next generation. In most cases, new rulers celebrated their predecessor's memory and honored his corpse to emphasize continuity and strengthen their claims to the throne. Those who rose by conquest or regicide, in contrast, often desecrated the bodies of deposed royalty or relegated them to anonymous graves in attempts to brand their predecessors as tyrants unworthy of ruling a Christian nation. By delegitimizing the previous ruler, they justified their own accession. At a time when hereditary succession was not guaranteed and few accessions went unchallenged, the king's body was a commodity that royal candidates fought to control.

Author : Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137339157

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The Queens Regnant of Navarre by Elena Woodacre Pdf

The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts.

Author : Francis Bacon,Basil Montagu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B3618254

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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon,Basil Montagu Pdf

Author : James Kelley
Publisher : Trine Day
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781936296286

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Anatomyzing Divinity by James Kelley Pdf

This three-part analysis of modernity assesses the impact that Western thought and philosophy has had on today's world. Making use of neglected research from the fringes of academia, "Anatomyzing Divinity" traces the circuitous path of occult wisdom from China, India, Egypt and the Hellenistic world to Byzantium and beyond. At the heart of the book is an investigation of the life and thought of G. W. Leibniz, the man who invented calculus and laid the groundwork for binary code, which in turn made computers possible. Leibniz's roots, Kelley shows, lay in the Frankish metaphysical tradition, and thus have little in common with some of his contemporaries' materialism. Along the way, sidelights are turned on 1) the occult basis of Western political systems, as well as 2) the alchemical basis of much Western philosophy and theology.

Author : William Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000460786

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Christ's Famous Titles, and A Believer's Golden Chain by William Dyer Pdf

Author : Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271041391

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The King's Body by Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield Pdf

The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

Author : Aidan Dodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136158148

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The Canopic Equipment Of The Kings of Egypt by Aidan Dodson Pdf

First published in 1994. The term 'Canopic', as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken identity. The aims of this monograph are primarily archaeological and historical, to document all canopic equipment attributable to the kings of Egypt, and to discuss each element in its spatial and temporal context. Translations of all available texts are provided, but no attempt is made to discuss them from a detailed religious or philological standpoint.

Author : Mel Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107131217

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Royal Voices by Mel Evans Pdf

A linguistic examination of Tudor texts that demonstrates the importance of materiality and language in the construction of royal power.

Author : Thomas Malory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF000523501

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Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Maloryʼs Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table by Edward Strachey by Thomas Malory Pdf

Author : George C. Christie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195341157

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Philosopher Kings? by George C. Christie Pdf

'Philosopher Kings' examines the attempts by courts to sort out conflicts involving freedom of expression, including religious expression on the one hand and rights to privacy and other important social values on the other.

Author : Paulette Lynn Pepin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498505901

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María de Molina, Queen and Regent by Paulette Lynn Pepin Pdf

This biography of Queen María de Molina thematically explores her life and demonstrates her collective exercise of power and authority as queen. Throughout her public life, María de Molina’s resilient determination, as queen and later as regent, enabled her to not only work tirelessly to establish an effective governing partnership with her husband King Sancho IV, which never occurred, but also to establish the legitimacy of her children and their heirs and their right to rule. Such legitimacy enabled Queen María de Molina’s son and grandson, under her tutelage, to fend off other monarchs and belligerent nobles. The author demonstrates the queen’s ability to govern the Kingdom of Castile-León as a partner with her husband King Sancho IV, a partnership that can be described as an official union. A major theme of this study is María de Molina’s role as dowager queen and regent as she continued to exercise her queenly power and authority to protect the throne of her son Fernando IV and, later, of her grandson Alfonso XI, and to provide peace and stability for the Kingdom of Castile-León.

Author : Joshua I. Newman,Holly Thorpe,David Andrews
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813591810

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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body by Joshua I. Newman,Holly Thorpe,David Andrews Pdf

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103911694

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The Holy Bible by Anonim Pdf