Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power : The King's Body Never Dies /
edited by Karolina Mroziewicz and Aleksander Sroczyński.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (429 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; Introduction / PaweÅ#x82; Figurski, Karolina Mroziewicz, and Aleksander SroczyÅ#x84;ski; Part 1: Premodern Rulership; Assembly Politics and Conflicting Discourses in Early Medieval León (10th-11th c.) / Ã#x81;lvaro Carvajal Castro; The Supreme Power of the Armour and the Veneration of the Emperorâ#x80;#x99;s Body in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Foteini Spingou; The Exultet of BolesÅ#x82;aw II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages / PaweÅ#x82; Figurski Â#x80;#x98;Internationalâ#x80;#x99; Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth-Century Latin Christendom / Wojciech KozÅ#x82;owskiThe Kingâ#x80;#x99;s Immature Body: Representations of Child Coronations in Poland, Hungary and Bohemia (1382-1530) / Karolina Mroziewicz; We Were the Trojans: Rhetoric and Political Community in Medieval and Early Modern Sarmatia and Illyria / Alesander SroczyÅ#x84;ski; The Life and Afterlife of Pontifical Indiscretions in the Renaissance / Ã#x81;gnes MátÃ(c); The Queenâ#x80;#x99;s Two Faces: The Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England / Emilia Olechnowicz; Part 2: Contemporary Political Power Blood, Honour and the Norm: Race Defilement and the Boundaries of Community in Hungary, 1941 / Gábor SzegediDual Approaches to Communist Engagement: Helena Krajewska and Marek WÅ#x82;odarski / Piotr SÅ#x82;odkowski; The Supermenâ#x80;#x99;s Two Bodies: The Body, the Costume, and the Legitimacy of Power in the DC Universe Narratives / Andrzej Probulski; And Then They Were Bodies: Medieval Royalties, from DNA Analysis to a Nationâ#x80;#x99;s Identity / Alexandra Ion; List of Figures; General Bibliography; Index
In the medieval period, the monarch was seen as the embodiment of the community of his kingdom, the body politic. And while we've long since shed that view, it nonetheless continues to influence our understanding of contemporary politics. This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations - bodies politic - were and continue to be constructed and challenged. Drawing on history, archaeology, literary criticism, and art history, the contributors survey a wide geographical and chronological spectrum to offer a panoramic view of these dynamic political entities.