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Brown, L. "Kingship and usurpation 1399-1485." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596991.

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This thesis focuses on the relationship between kingship and usurpation in the period between the deposition of Richard II in 1399 and the accession of Henry VII in 1485. The whole edifice of medieval English kingship was ideologically and practically founded upon the understanding that a monarch was above the judgement of his subjects, yet in the period between 1399 and 1485 the English king was violently removed from office on six occasions. These events created a formidable intellectual paradox at the heart of the institution of kingship, with each usurper attempting to claim for himself the immunity from correction that he had so recently and forcibly violated. The ways in which this paradox was approached by successive usurpers offer a potentially illuminating insight into medieval political structures and the way these structures were viewed by contemporaries. This thesis investigates the attempts at legitimation put forward by the various usurping dynasties that occupied the English throne between 1399 and 1485, and the extent to which these attempts were accepted by the political community. It considers the six usurpations both individually and as a sequence in which each informed the next, through the medium of two groups of records. The first group consists of records created by the central government concerned, either directly or tangentially, to legitimise its hold on power. The second group comprises documents produced by the king’s subjects, either in support of, or in opposition to, his government and its theoretical statements. By analysing these two groups of material, this thesis explores how the attempts to legitimise the fifteenth-century usurpations worked, the degree to which they were accepted and the impact they had on underlying contemporary assumptions about kingship.

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Sidebottom, Harry. "Studies in Dio Chrysostom on kingship." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315939.

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Chaulagain, Nawaraj. "Hindu Kingship: Ritual, Power and History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11203.

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This dissertation examines two major kingship rituals-- the coronation and the autumnal navaratri--as discussed in Hindu religious literature and ritual texts, and as practised in Nepal. These rituals are based on sacred myths and primarily oriented to the production of religious and socio-political dimensions of sovereign power. The Vedic, tantric, and other devotional acts as found in these rituals empower the king and construct his personal and corporate identity. The rituals are consequently strongly political, as various divine, human and other agencies invest the king with multiple powers and authorize him to rule; these agencies also negotiate their own relations, domains of influence, and hierarchies. These rituals produce a sacred and divine king and kingship, as well as sacred space, by establishing the king's connection (bandhu) and identification with many sources of power. As myth and ritual are used in the service of power and authority, they jointly promote each other to create, perpetuate, and strengthen these attributes. Since the uses of myth and ritual are strategic and ideological, they can be used to legitimize the status of the king and enforce the use of power on others. As illustrated in the recent history of Nepal, the myth and ritual can also be sites for dialogue, negotiation, resistance, subversion, and replacement of the same power. Religion and politics are deeply intertwined in these ritual activities; in fact, only in the deeply religious and devotional settings can the rituals exert maximum socio-political powers.

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Burch, Peter James Winter. "The origins of Anglo-Saxon kingship." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-origins-of-anglosaxon-kingship(49264d94-935e-4661-82da-891c9ab0448b).html.

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The origins of kingship have typically been accepted as a natural or inevitable development by scholars. The purpose of this thesis is to question that assumption. This work will re-examine the origins of early Anglo-Saxon kingship through a coherent and systematic survey of the available and pertinent archaeological and historical sources, addressing them by type, by period and as their varying natures require. The thesis begins with the archaeological evidence. ‘Elite’ burials, such as Mound One, Sutton Hoo, will be ranked according to their probability of kingliness. This process will point to elite burial as being a regionally-specific, predominately-seventh-century, phenomenon of an ideologically-aware, sophisticated and established political institution. Consequently, elite burial cannot be seen as an indication of the origins of kingship, but can instead be interpreted as a development or experiment within kingship. Analysis of ‘elite’ settlements, such as Yeavering, and numismatic evidence, will lead to similar conclusions. Further, consideration of various other settlement types – former Roman military sites in Northern Britain, former Roman Towns, and enclosed settlements – will point to various potential origins of Anglo-Saxon kingship in the form of continuities with previous Roman, Romano-British or British power structures. The thesis will go on to consider the historical sources. Those of the fifth and sixth centuries, primarily Gildas’s De excidio et conquestu Britanniae, point to several factors of note. The cessation of formal imperial rule over Britain following c.410 effectively created a power vacuum. Various new sources of political power are observable attempting to fill this vacuum, one of which, ultimately, was kingship. Through analogy with contemporary British kingdoms, it is possible to suggest that this development of kingship in England may be placed in the early sixth, if not the fifth, centuries. This would make the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingship significantly earlier than typically thought. This kingship was characterised by the conduct of warfare, its dependence on personal relationships, and particularly by its varying degrees of status and differing manifestations of power covered by the term king. Further details will be added to this image through the narrative and documentary sources of the seventh and early eighth centuries. These predominately shed light on the subsequent development of kingship, particularly its growing association with Christianity. Indeed, the period around c.600 can be highlighted as one of notable change within Anglo-Saxon kingship. However, it is possible to point to the practice of food rents, tolls and the control of resources serving as an economic foundation for kingship, while legal intervention and claimed descent from gods also provide a potential basis of power. Several characteristics of seventh- and early-eighth-century kingship will also be highlighted as being relevant to its origins – the conduct of warfare and the exercise of over-kingship – relating to the general propensity for amalgamation through conquest. Other trajectories are also highlighted, specifically continuity from previous Roman and British entities and the development of ‘pop-up’ kingdoms. The overall result is one in which long-term amalgamation and short-term disintegration and re-constitution were equally in evidence, set against the wider context of broad regional continuities. Overall, therefore, the thesis will not fully resolve the issue of the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingship, but it does offer a means to re-frame discussion, explore the social and economic underpinnings of kingship and assess its primacy as an institution within early Anglo-Saxon England.

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Gerbrandt, Gerald Eddie. "Kingship according to the Deuteronomistic history /." Atlanta : Ga : Scholars press, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34930689b.

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Chaulagain, Nawaraj. "Kingship, rituals, and power in Nepal." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2118.

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Drawing on the ritual theory of “rebounding violence” as developed by Maurice Bloch, the contemporary anthropologist, the thesis examined some kingship rituals periodically observed in Nepal and highlighted their political implications. The study also made an assessment of the concept of “divine kingship” in orthodox “Hindu” tradition and traced connections between religion and politics. In Nepal, kingship is taken as a symbol of sovereign power and national unity, and the king is often revered in public festivals as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, or as a representative of some other divinities such as Indra, Bhairava and the Buddha. The thesis explored such rituals, demystified the concept of “divine kingship,” and displayed through historical evidences how Nepali rulers have appropriated religious occasions for their own legitimacy.

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Schnepel, Burkhard. "Five approaches to the theory of divine kingship and the kingship of the Shilluk of the Southern Sudan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327977.

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Kass, Kersti L. "Regarding Henry : performing kingship in Henry V." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79954.

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This thesis seeks to examine not any single theory of kingship in Shakespeare's 'Henriad', but the evolving methods of its representation from Richard II's assumed embodiment of monarchic authority to Henry V's unapologetic performance of the kingly role. As well, it explores how a shared awareness of authority's performed nature forces the spectator into knowing her own creative authority and in doing so, heightens not only the tension between gazer and gazed-upon, but also lays bare the spectator's need to watch a desired object and the performing object's overarching wish to be watched. The paper's critical foundation ranges from phenomenological approaches to the theatre and gender performance to studies on the spectacle of kingship.

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Wyn-Williams, Rhian. "The visual language of kingship, 1640-1653." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569159.

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This thesis seeks to offer a re-evaluation of the nature of political culture in England during the years of civil war through the use of visual material. There exists a rich body of pictorial evidence and yet it is frequently overlooked completely or used very selectively to illustrate conclusions reached through close studies of other source material, particularly popular print. However, this thesis takes as its starting point the intensely visual nature of early modern political and popular culture and utilises material as wide-ranging as court portraiture, satirical woodcuts and objects such as coins and medallions. By focusing in particular on the visual language of idealised kingship which developed under Charles l, this thesis will question the existence of the bi-polar model of political participation so frequently depicted in the historiography of the period by demonstrating the conservative and consensual nature of much of the imagery. Therefore, this study explores the manner in which a broad and popular audience responded to the pictorial depiction of their king as divine and as the fulcrum of social order. This makes it necessary to consider the manner in which the imagery of idealised kingship was disseminated outside the court, therefore placing it within the context of an increasingly politicised populace. Through this, the extent to which models of conflict and consensus could co-exist will be demonstrated, leading to an evaluation of the intrinsically conservative self-identification of the parliamentarian cause and of popular allegiance, particularly through the polemical constructs of 'cavalier' and 'roundhead '. It will be suggested that propagandist images of kingship became embedded in political culture because they reflected broadly accepted norms of social behaviour. This proves to be essential in understanding the influence of and the extent to which Charles I became the personification of the body politic, ultimately enabling his aura of sanctity to deepen during the wars and after the regicide, whilst hindering the possibility of the Rump establishing its own distinctive imagery of political authority. By offering an alternative body of evidence, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that the visual language of king ship became the language of social normality and authority.

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Wong, Hoong Hing. "The kingship of Jesus in Mathew's Gospel." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313440.

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Vukovojac, Marija. "Stefan Nemanja : a case of sacral kingship." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/stefan-nemanja(766e2dfc-2ecd-4920-b111-6671fa609e82).html.

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This PhD thesis investigates how the successors to the first ruler of an amalgamation of Serb lands, the Raškan Serb Veliki Župan, Stefan Nemanja, sought to create legitimacy for what otherwise may have been the passing successes of one local chieftain. The question is approached through the Lives of Nemanja written by his sons, Prvovenčani and Sava, whose tasks were to stabilise the immediate succession and consolidate the longer lasting power of the dynasty. Through a close reading of the two Lives, the thesis identifies and compares the motifs used by the authors to portray Nemanja as a saintly ruler divinely inspired by God to 'lead and unite' his people. Without an existing Serbian literary tradition, the thesis investigates how the authors found inspiration, looking first at the European-wide phenomenon of holy rulers and their associated texts, before considering the general literary environment surrounding the Raškan Serbs, to place the writing of Nemanja's Lives into context. The motifs highlighted in the Lives are compared with those in a selected group of texts, potentially available to the authors, to identify possible models which each other may have copied, adapted or transformed. The secondary objectives of the two authors, ruler and monk, will also be touched on bearing in mind the secular and sacred image of Nemanja being portrayed.

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Tyler, Damian John. "Kingship and conversion : constructing pre-Viking Mercia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488234.

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This thesis seeks to explore changes in patterns of Mercian kingship from c. 633 to 796. It is argued that during this period Mercian kings acquired more functions and developed a form of kingship which was more powerful, more centralized and more invasive than hitherto. It is suggested that these changes occurred as a consequence of the adoption by Mercian kings of Rome-focused Christianity. An interdisciplinary methodology has been adopted, using a range of literary and non-literary sources, to produce four case studies which examine different aspects of Mercian kingship at different periods. The first case study makes a broad overview of the career and kingship of Penda. The second explores the changing relationships between religion, ethnicity and group identity. The third case study considers the role of the emporium at London in the creation of a more integrated supra-regional elite. The final study examines Offa's Dyke, and considers the significance of that monument for visions of Mercian royal ideology. While it is accepted that the surviving sources are few and fragmentary, it is suggested that a re-examination of them can do much to advance our understanding of Mercian kingship. It is argued that the pre-conversion Mercian hegemony presided over by Penda was a political. system which depended on the existence of multiple kingships, loosely tied together by personal links between kings. It is suggested that the introduction of Rome-oriented Christianity not only provided Mercian rulers with mechanisms making centralization possible, but also with new paradigms of kingship which made it seem desirable. Using models drawn from social anthropology, it is argued that Penda's hegemony was ethnically and religiously pluralist in composition, and that the diverse elites of this system were bound together by non-ethnic forms of group identity. It is suggested that the ideological entailments of conversion ultimately resulted in the development of more exclusive, more self-consciously 'English' forms of kingship. Finally, an attempt is made to position the findings of this thesis in the mainstream of research on pre-viking Mercia. It is argued that for much of the twentieth century, eighth-century Mercian kingship was seen as an important stage in the development of a unified English kingship. More recently, it is suggested revisionist insights have resulted in a downgrading of visions of 'the Mercian Supremacy', which is now seen as less impressive than earlier scholars maintained, and essentially ephemeral. It is argued that, in rejecting earlier, overstated models, revisionism has perhaps gone too far. No attempt is made to reoccupy pre-revisionist positions, but it is proposed that eight-century Mercian kingship was more significant than modern interpretations allow.

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Penman, Michael A. "The kingship of David II, 1329-71." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14208.

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This thesis examines the kingship of David II, king of Scots (1329-71), son of Robert Bruce (Robert I, 1306-29). It seeks to outline and assess just what style and policies of kingship David adopted and adapted to meet the rapidly changing circumstances of his reign. Chapter 1 assesses the legacy of kingship, patronage, civil war and diplomacy which the apparently successful usurper, Robert I, left to his five year old son and his supporters. Chapter 2 appraises the exercise of government, warfare and crown- magnate relations by the pro-Bruce Scots during David II's minority and exile in France (1329-41) in the face of the renewed military and political challenge of Edward Balliol, the Disinherited and Edward III of England. Chapter 3 interrupts the detailed narrative to present a thematic overview of David's kingship and his particular use of chivalric lordship as a means of raising and rewarding support for his court and policies (and how this lordship had to be modified in response to David's changing personal and political circumstances). Chapter 4 resumes the narrative analysis by investigating David's reassertion of Bruce royal authority in Scotland from June 1341 and how David's relations with his key subjects contributed directly to his capture in battle against England at Neville's Cross near Durham in October 1346.1 Chapter 5 looks at David's eleven year struggle to secure his release from captivity in England; in particular, it details the diplomatic deals with England which David proposed and the nature of the opposition in Scotland to these plans led by David's nephew and heir presumptive, Robert the Steward (Robert II, 1371-90). Chapter 6 examines David's reassertion of royal authority after October 1357 and the crisis in 1359 which was provoked by the crown's attempt to cancel the king's 100,000 merks ransom (which the Scots agreed to pay for David's release in 1357) by arranging a peace deal with England which included a place for a Plantagenet in the succession to the Scottish kingship. Chapter 7 evaluates David's reassertion of authority after the 1359 crisis and how his growing interference in the territorial and political interests of his greatest subjects - and his continued diplomatic manoeuvering - provoked the rebellion of Robert the Steward and the earls of Douglas and March against the crown in spring 1363. Chapter 8 assesses how David put down that rebellion and used his victory to attempt another Anglo-Scottish succession-peace deal, but without success. Chapter 9 examines David's continued efforts to secure an Anglo-Scottish succession-peace deal and to undermine the positions of his regional magnate opponents in Scotland; and how his failure to make real headway in these areas, and in the provision of a Bruce heir, threatened to provoke a further crown-magnate confrontation c. 1368-9. Chapter 10 analyses how David averted this impending crisis by divorcing his second wife and by seeking a third, backed by a strong magnate coalition; with this support David had begun to approach a position of unexampled authority and to exert his will over his magnate opponents by the time of his unexpected death in February 1371, aged just 47. The thesis is concluded with a summary evaluation of the unique style and policies of kingship which the pro-active David II had been able to develop to suit the rapidly changing circumstances of his reign. This style and these policies contributed to an arguably unprecedented level of royal authority in medieval Scotland; yet their ultimate aim and outcome remained unrealised and, to some extent, unpredictable.

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Hulls, J. M. "The role of kingship in Statius' Thebaid." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446011/.

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This thesis analyses Statius' Thebaid and the relationship it creates with VirgiVs Aeneid and the emperor Domitian. The poem constructs itself as a competing source of authority, both poetic and ideological. The poem aims to supersede Virgil's masterpiece as a poetic authority whilst providing Domitian with imperial, and in particular, regal ideology. The thesis examines three key qualities, virtus pietas and dementia in this regard, showing the manner in which Virgilian and Augustan interpretations are undermined and new understandings of these ideas are provided for Domitian's principate. The thesis then examines the role tyranny and tyrannical behaviour plays in the poem. The Thebaid portrays tyranny in unusual ways and promotes surprising responses to tyrannical rule. Throughout the poem, Statius is working to provide his audience, especially Domitian, with an educational framework for understanding models of kingship Domitian should learn from the negative examples the Thebaid provides. Statius uses the Thebaid as a step in a poetic oeuvre whose design is nothing less than to make the poet himself powerful by becoming the poetic voice on which his emperor depends.

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Khoshkhoosani, Seyede Pouye. "Shi'ism and Kingship in Safavid Court Poetry." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10982640.

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My research concerns intertwined issues of religio-political legitimacy and panegyric poetry during the Safavid dynasty (r. 1501 ? 1722). I explore ways that ideology and dominance were enacted and reproduced through the Safavid panegyrics in qa??deh and masnav? form. This research specifically examines how court poets responded to Safavid ideology for legitimizing kingship. Panegyric poetry has been one of the chief forms of political propaganda in praise of rulers and other holders of political authority from pre-Islamic times until modern days. Panegyric poems, especially qa??deh and masnav?, were the production of a court system and they were dominantly produced when a king was in power. By considering the nature of panegyric, as written for receiving a reward, the poets? portrayal of kings is traditionally ?assumed? to be the closest to the kings? self-image. The Safavid Persian panegyric, especially the qa??deh form, has heretofore received little scholarly attention. Scholars have usually investigated the literary value of this poetic genre and dismissed the role it could play in the promotion of Muslim rulers. This dissertation explores the ways in which religio-political legitimacy was produced and transmitted through the qa??deh and masnav? forms during the Safavid period and emphasizes the significance of investigating the panegyric genre of poetry not only from a literary perspective, but through a historical lens. While other cultural materials of the time emphasized the role of Safavid kings in the propagation of Twelver Shi`ism and portrayed the kings in a subservient position to the Shi`i Imams, I demonstrate that the Safavid court poetry highlighted the idea of ?sacred? in Sufi discourses and in notions that invoke pre-Islamic forms of Persian kingship to legitimize the Safavid rulership. From the time of Shah `Abb?s I (r. 1588 ? d. 1629), these two forms of representation were established more profoundly in Safavid panegyrics and stood in contrast to traditional notions of Shi`ism that were predominant in other cultural materials that issued in the name of the Safavid rulers. This dissertation, on the one hand, serves historians of the Safavid period, who investigate the Safavid courts and ideology in kingship. It demonstrates how the poets worked differently from the other sources through which the legitimization of the Safavid kingship was established. On the other hand, my study serves scholars of religion, who study Safavid religious treatises in order to shed light on the development of Shi?ism, Sufism, and other religious traditions of the time. By demonstrating the differences between the representation of a Shi`i Safavid king in cultural materials of the time and panegyrics, my research invites these scholars to examine non-religious sources more extensively to investigate Safavid ideology because these sources give a sense of how the religio-political ideology of the kings was perceived among the public and how it developed through time.

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Irwin, Philip Todd. "Aspects of dynastic kingship in early medieval Ireland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390355.

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Glinister, Fay Nadine. "The Roman kingship in the sixth century BC." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308075.

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Camidge, Linda Margaret. "The celebration of kingship in fifteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337728.

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Line, Philip Walter. "Kingship and state formation in Sweden, 1130-1290." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396559.

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Blustein, Rebecca Danielle. "Kingship, history and mythmaking in medieval Irish literature." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1432770931&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gray, Cecile G. "David's rise to kingship a literary critical approach /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Dochniak, Craig Charles 1964. "Kingship festival iconography in the Egyptian Archaic Period." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278001.

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The high degree of correlation existing between the subject matter visually depicted on Early Dynastic Egyptian objects and the year-names represented hieroglyphically on the Palermo Stone--an historical annal from the Fifth Dynasty--suggests that much Early Dynastic imagery was meant to serve as a dating device, a kind of pictorial year-name, based on the important event or events that occurred within the year. The selection of the historic events referred to in these year-names appears to be based on their compatibility with certain festivals associated with the king. These festivals express the theoretical model of kingship and therefore can be used to reconstruct the king's primary roles and responsibilities during the Early Dynastic Period. Such duties include the unification, protection and expansion of the king's realm--both Earthly and Cosmic; the insuring of the irrigation and fertility of the land; the foundation and dedication of important buildings and temples; and the reaffirmation and magical rejuvenation of his primeval powers as expressed in such festivals as the Sed.

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Mozaffari-Falarti, Maziar. "Kedah : the foundations and durability of Malay kingship." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31237/1/Maziar_Falarti_Thesis.pdf.

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Calvi, Lisanna <1974&gt. "Kingship in restoration and early Eighteenth-century tragedy." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/710.

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La tesi, ponendo come limiti temporali indicativi la restaurazione della monarchia in Inghilterra (1660) e la morte della regina Anna (1714), si propone di indagare il tema della regalità in ambito teatrale e, in particolare, in quello della tragedia. La scelta dei drammi ha privilegiato cinque autori attivi sulla scena londinese nella seconda metà del Seicento e nei primi anni del Settecento: Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, John Dryden, Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Otway e Nicholas Rowe. La discussione delle opere (suddivisa in quattro capitoli, preceduti da una sezione introduttiva) segue un ordine cronologico e segna i momenti più significativi della evoluzione storica e costituzionale della monarchia e della nazione: dalla Restaurazione alla crisi dell'esclusione, dalla Gloriosa Rivoluzione alla successione degli Hanover '. Nel tentativo di definire la materia, è possibile individuare, attraverso la lettura dei drammi, una molteplicità stratificata di temi e aprire la prospettiva interpretativa al contesto storico, analizzato nei cambiamenti costituzionali, nella rinnovata visione politica del ruolo e della funzione della monarchia e nelle tensioni religiose che affollano la seconda metà del Seicento, per giungere alla dimensione simbolica, nella rappresentazione di un ordine paradigmatico che affonda le sue radici nell'idealità monarchica pre-rivoluzionaria, pur non potendo prescindere dalla grave interruzione e rottura di quell'equilibrio avvenuta nel 1649. L'Inghilterra non conobbe gli esiti violenti che avrebbero agitato il continente europeo nel 1789, ma, negli ultimi decenni del XVII secolo, vide la fondamentale evoluzione del proprio regime costituzionale e delle strutture ontologiche dell'istituzione monarchica che, seguendo tempi e modalità non sempre coincidenti con quelli dei mutamenti politici, contribuirono allo sfaldamento degli ideali restaurati e alla loro trasformazione in nuove costruzioni e convinzioni. Tale corso storico trova, nella produzione tragica che va dalla riapertura dei teatri ai primi decenni del Settecento, un'interessante organicità di corrispondenze che pare seguire un processo di svelamento della regalità fino al raggiungimento della sua 'essenza'. 1 Le opere discusse nella tesi sono: Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth, John Dryden, The Indian Queen, The Indian Emperour e Don Sebastian, Nathaniel Lee, The Rivai Queens e Lucius Junius Brutus, Thomas Otway, Don Carlos e Caius Marius, Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane e Lady Jane Gray. Lo studio di questo sviluppo ideale e storico, che si lega anche all'evoluzione filosofico-politica di Thomas Hobbes, di Sir Robert Filmer e di John Locke, porta, procedendo a ritroso nel tempo, all'indagine della fondazione e dei fondamenti della regalità attraverso l'analisi del sostegno medioevale, giuridico e spirituale, della figura del re come nell'individuazione di una idealità Stuart, temporalmente più vicina e rintracciabile nella rinnovata teatralità della Restaurazione. Oltre all'illustrazione della regalità nel tragico attraverso le sue componenti storiche e ideali, la varietà dell'esperienza religiosa e la sua influenza primaria sulla vita politica inglese si pongono, pure nell'apparente distanza, quale finestra di dialogo e corrispondenza con il testo teatrale sia nella vicinanza sia nella critica alle tendenze religiose contemporanee. L'emergere di una moderna identità costituzionale è costantemente filtrata dalla nobiltà metafisica di un altrove legato ora alla classicità greca e latina, ora all'esoticità del nuovo mondo o anche alla storia patria, assurta però a dimensione mitica. Inoltre, le molteplici progressioni e implicazioni della stagione politica tardosecentesca, vissuta intensamente dalla società e mai lontana dal teatro, investono, nella forma drammatica, nuclei di evoluzione del genere tragico che sembrano presagire la sua futura evoluzione. All'inizio del Settecento, pare, infatti, intuibile un parziale declino dei caratteri tragici e una mutata attenzione del pubblico verso nuove forme di espressione letteraria. Taking the Restoration of monarchy in England (1660) and Queen Anne's death (1714) as temporal limits, the thesis intends to investigate the theme of kingship in the theatre and, particularly, in tragedy. The choice of discussed works has favoured the production of five playwrights who were active on the London scene in the second half of the seventeenth and in early eighteenth centuries: Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, John Dryden, Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Otway e Nicholas Rowe. The dissertation (divided in four chapters, preceded by an introductory section) follows a chronological order and marks significant moments of historical and constitutional evolution of monarchy and state: from the Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis, from the Glorious Revolution to the Hanoverian succession '. A definition of the main topic is to be achieved by the recognition of the plays' stratified multiplicity of themes and by the opening of the interpretative perspective to the historical context. The analysis of the constitutional evolution, which led to a renewed political vision of the monarchy's function and role, as well as of the strong religious tensions that crowded the second half of the seventeenth century, shows the way to the symbolic dimension of a paradigmatic order deeply engrained in pre-revolutionary royal ideology, although its re-established symmetry do not ignore the deep blow it had suffered in 1649. England did not experience the same violence that shocked Europe in 1789, but, in the last decades of the seventeenth century, it saw the fundamental emergence of a renewed constitutional regime which deeply affected the political, as well as ontological, structures monarchy was built on. Despite the fact that institutional changes did not always coincide with symbolic shift, such transformations greatly contributed to the crumbling of the restored ideals and to their reformation. Such historical paths found, in tragic works produced from the re-opening of the theatres to the first decades of the eighteenth century, an interesting system of correspondences that seemed to aim at the unveiling of kingship to its 'essence'. 'The works dealt with in the four chapters mentioned above are: Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth, John Dryden, The Indian Queen, The Indian Emperour and Don Sebastian, Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens and Lucius Junius Brutus, Thomas Otway, Don Carlos and Caius Marius, Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane and Lady Jane Gray. The study of this historical and ideal development, which is also linked to the philosophical and political evolution in the works of Thomas Hobbes, Sir Robert Filmer and John Locke, leads, backward in time, to the investigation of the foundations of kingship through the analysis of its mediaeval juridical and spiritual provisions as well as in the identification of a more recent Stuart ideology in the Restoration transformed theatrical reality. Historical and ideal traits of tragic kingship fuse with the variety of the religious scene. The primary importance of religion and its constant influence in English political panorama held, despite their seeming distance, a continuous dialogue with the stage showing either support or disapproval towards contemporary religious trends. The emergence of a modern constitutional identity is constantly filtered by the metaphysical nobility of either ancient Greek and Roman settings or by the New World's exotic elsewhere or even by national history, now elevated to a mythical dimension. Moreover, the manifold advancements and allusions of late-seventeenthcentury political season, socially and theatrically intense, affected, in drama, the evolution of tragedy and seemed to foresee this genre's future transformation. Indeed, the beginning of the eighteenth century witnessed a partial decline of tragic traits and an altered attention of audiences towards new forms of literary expression.

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Kim, Sehyun. "The Kingship of Jesus in the Gospel of john." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527260.

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Sponsler, Kenneth A. "The problem of kingship in the book of Judges." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Nichols, E. Byron. "The kingship of Yahweh in Psalm 74:12-17." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Hamilton, Sarah Mary. "The practice of penance c.900 - c.1050." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264332.

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Holder, John Walder Dunlop. "Models of kingship in the books of Samuel and Kings : a literary and theological study of kingship in the books of Samuel and Kings." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1985. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/models-of-kingship-in-the-books-of-samuel-and-kings--a-literary-and-theological-study-of-kingship-in-the-books-of-samuel-and-kings(152e4fcc-e1c3-4dc7-ae79-22fa258d1c6d).html.

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Prietzel, Kathrin. "Anglo-Saxon authorities : constructions of kingship and concepts of power." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534601.

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Taylor, Alice. "Aspects of law, kingship and government in Scotland c1100-1230." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517029.

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Allen, Lindsay Kirsten. "The culture and ideology of Achaemenid kingship 404-323 B.C." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289854.

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This study comprises a synthesis of textual, iconographic and archaeological evidence relating to kingship in the later Achaemenid empire, from the end of the reign of Darius II to the invasion and death of Alexander III of Macedon. Chapter 1 deals with the textual evidence for the defenition of the Achaemenid dynasty in the fourth century and considers literary definitions of kingship in epitaphic eulogies and heroic conquest narratives. Authors referred to include Xenophon, Isocrates, Arrian and Herodotus and Darius I's inscriptions are discussed in detail. Chapter 2 considers 'Court Tales' in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew, looking at how foreign groups presented themselves in the Achaemenid court and in relationship to the king. Chapter 3 begins with court tales about objects and luxury material culture associated with the Persian king and goes on to discuss pictorial and archaeological evidence for its extent and associations. A detailed survey is made of extant Achaemenid-style glass tableware. Chapter 4 expands this discussion into a survey of the fourth century royal visual environment. Two case studies examine the iconographic presentation of the king in two roles in a variety of media: the enthroned monarch accessible to petitioners and the combative royal hero fighting beasts and representatives of subject nations. Both genres represent structures through which regional cultures could formulate distinctive relationships with Achaemenid authority. Key themes throughout include regional engagement with royal culture and ideas and the continuing depth of Near Eastern historical tradition in the later Achaemenid period.

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Zumbuhl, Mark Joseph. "The practice of Irish kingship in the Central Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1209/.

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The institution of kingship was a fundamental feature of medieval Irish society; if we can better understand kingship, we can similarly gain a greater appreciation of the distinctive features of that society. This thesis investigates the practices of Irish kings and dynasties in the Central Middle Ages (roughly, the ninth to twelfth centuries) as represented by the sources. Several kingdoms and dynasties of medieval Ireland are closely studied with reference to different aspects of royal practice. There are two particular elements of this methodology. The first is to trace the practices employed by the kings of those dynasties over time; this gives us a greater sense of how kingship changed through the centuries, and enables us to move away from the static and synchronic models of kingship which have informed much previous scholarship. The second is to focus closely on these kingdoms so that we may gain a better sense of regional variation within Ireland. The investigation proceeds with the belief that Irish conditions may be better understood by reference to parallels drawn from the wider European context. This thesis demonstrates that the nature of Irish kingship and the practices of its kings are more sophisticated and varied matters than has been realised. The ‘dynamic’ model of kingship is validated, but it has become clear that we must allow for a greater degree of variation in the strategies and styles of Irish royal practice, both regionally, and as time progressed. Many features were common to the whole Irish polity; this is not surprising, for pre-Norman Ireland, as mediated to us through the sources, appears to possess a remarkably uniform culture. However, in different ways, the ruling dynasties of Mide, Ailech, Munster, Bréifne and Osraige innovated and contributed to the development of Irish royal practices, and arguably to the nature of Irish kingship itself. The thesis also re-examines the arguments which have been advanced that the nature of kingship had profoundly changed by ca 1200.

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McCarthy, Margaret Jean. "Power and kingship under Louis II the Stammerer, 877-879." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610571.

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Buckley, Ian M. M. "Rescripting the political romance : narratives of kingship, tyranny, and community." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2003. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/rescripting-the-political-romance(b6d18460-be63-4e95-9b04-4f2c2ef5a8e0).html.

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Without seeking to reify a category of 'political romances', this study explores the participation of five Middle English poems (Havelok, The Tale of Gamelyn, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther, Robert of cisyle), normally classed among the romances, in the cultural process of constructing and regulating contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in this discourse these romances cross generic boundaries, interacting with textual traditions (including historiography, hagiography, folk tale, and the literature of complaint), inscribing ideologies contesting romance's world-view. This study attempts to trace the ideological impact of these generic interactions on romance models of rule, investigating whether these romances cross generic boundaries in search of an idiom in which to critique dominant models of power relations, or whether, in attempting to appropriate the discourse of other genres, they seek to bolster dominant ideology by containing the subversive energies of its textual opponents. If these romances are identified as cultural products of a dominant ideology striving to perpetuate its own ascendancy, then it is a dominant ideology in the process of adapting itself in response to changing pressures, the nature of which I attempt to recover by attending to these texts' constructions and reconstructions of the hero's identity. I approach these romances not so much as the expression of the ideology of the dominant stratum, but part of the production of that ideology, called forth in a continuing dynamic response to contending discourses. I conclude that the energies of the genres with which these romances interact refuse appropriation, challenging the monologism of romance and continuing in their new narrative environment to propose their own political solutions. The resulting dialogization of romance indicates romance's diminishing ability to provide convincing resolutions to the contradictions of a changing society and to address the aspirations of a changing audience, In the ideological adjustments made by these romances in the process of interacting with other genres can be glimpsed the end of romance's insistence on heroic, and hence kingly, autonomy, and the replacement of heroic autonomy by community as the subject of romance.

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Orning, Hans Jacob. "Unpredictability and presence : Norwegian kingship in the High Middle Ages /." Leiden ; Boston : Mass. : Brill, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb412592988.

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Kapadia, Aparna. "Text, power, and kingship in medieval Gujarat, c. 1398-1511." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28731/.

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Despite the growing interest in the region of Gujarat, its pre-colonial history remains a neglected area of research. The dissertation is an attempt at redressing this gap, as well as at developing an understanding of the role of literary culture in the making of local polities in pre-modern South Asia. The dissertation explores the relationship between literary texts and political power. It specifically focuses on the fifteenth century, which coincides with the rise of the regional sultanate, which, along with the sultanates of Malwa, Deccan, and the kingdoms of Mewad and Marwar, emerged as an important power in the politics of South Asia in this period. As the sultans consolidated their influence in Gujarat, they were forced to negotiate with a variety of locally powerful chieftains. These negotiations lie at the heart of the narratives studied here. Organised as a series of case studies, the main body of the dissertation focuses on epic poems in Old Gujarati and Sanskrit produced in the courts of these chieftains, as well as an epic poem from the court of Sultan Mahmud Begada (1458-1511). In the latter part of the dissertation, the focus shifts to another literary terrain, also associated with the warrior elite of Gujarat. It analyses the oral 'bardic' narratives as presented by Alexander Forbes (1821-1865) in his Ras Mala: Hindoo Annals of the Province of Goozerat in Western India (1856). Through the analysis of these narratives from the medieval and colonial periods, the dissertation considers different aspects of power and kingship as constructed in the literary traditions of Old Gujarati and Sanskrit, Aparna Kapadia SOAS, London 2009.

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Quirke, S. G. "An investigation into problems of Thirteenth Dynasty kingship, with special reference to Papyrus Boulaq 18." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272478.

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Higginson, T. "Greek attitudes to Persian kingship down to the time of Xenophon." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384799.

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Lucas, Karen. "Middle English romance, attitudes to kingship and political crisis, c.l272-c.l350." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4637/.

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This study used mostly printed sources to investigate wider attitudes to kingship than those of the political philosophers and to consider their implications for the understanding of the political crises of 1297, 1326 and 1340-41.Middle English romances are suitable for determining more 'popular' attitudes to kingship because of their subject matter, the length of texts, their dissemination and their receptivity to contemporary opinion. These 'popular' attitudes were those belonging to the audience of the romances, being the large and increasingly politically influential group comprising knights and gentry. The romances contain substantial images and concepts of kingship, revealing strong expectations of the king in the areas of justice, good government and defence. They reveal an understanding of questions such as the nature of royal power and the king’s position with regard to will and law. The perception of kingship which animated the relationship between king and people was shown to be that of familiar social bonds. The images of kingship found in the romances are supported by those in a second type of popular literature, the legendary histories of Britain. The romance images provide legitimate evidence for the attitudes to kingship of knights and gentry. They are both representative of the opinions of this social group and capable of influencing the opinions of the people who had contact with the romances. Edward 1 was familiar with the attitudes of his people towards kingship and he appealed to these extensively to gain support for his requests for military service, money and supplies in 1297. The deposition of Edward II in 1326 showed royal opposition to be equally at ease in appealing to 'popular' attitudes to generate public support for the rebellion. The attitudes also created a receptive background for the removal of the king. In 1340-41 Edward III and his opponent Archbishop Stratford appealed to royal subjects' attitudes on kingship in order to try to achieve their practical and political aims. 'Popular' attitudes towards kingship became strengthened by association with particular kings and events.

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McCullagh, John. "Critics of Kingship in Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1124818196.

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Cramsie, John. "Kingship and crown finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625 /." Woodbridge ; Rochester (N.Y.) : Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38901023x.

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Howes, Jennifer. "The courts of pre-colonial south India : material culture and kingship /." London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40140812p.

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Wheeler, G. "Kingship and the transmission of power in Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17994/.

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Stokes, Kaele Leanne. "Welsh kingship, A.D. 383-1063 : a reassessment of terminology and political formation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251960.

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Holder, David. "The Davidic kingship ideal in the Old Testament its function and development /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Balzani, Marzia. "Changing traditions and rituals of legitimation : studies in kingship from Jodhpur, Rajasthan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267596.

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Menon, Vikram. "Popular princes : kingship and social change in Travancore and Cochin 1870-1930." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390428.

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Kanter, Julie Elizabeth. "Peripatetic and sedentary kingship : the itineraries of the thirteenth-century English kings." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569184.

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This thesis provides an analysis of the royal itineraries of King John, Henry III and Edward I, and examines the influences that acted upon these itineraries as well as the impact they had upon thirteenth-century England. Throughout this thesis the thirteenth-century English royal itinerary is placed within the context of other English royal itineraries. 2 Part I is divided into seven chapters. Chapter one sets out why the itineraries should be analysed, introduces the questions about the itineraries that this thesis seeks to answer, and considers the hypotheses that historians have made regarding these questions. Chapter two surveys the sources upon which the itineraries are based, considers how the itineraries were constructed, and sets out the rules of analysis which have been used in this thesis. Chapter three examines the logistics of the royal itinerary, such as planning and organization. Chapters four, five and six relate to the royal itinerary for John, Henry III and Edward I respectively. These chapters provide the overall analysis for the royal itinerary-including information on rates of travel, distance, lengths of stay and the favourite residences and regions of each king. They also examine the motivations that governed the itineraries, such as aspects of both routine and extraordinary royal government, piety and pleasure. Chapter seven focuses on the adaptation and impact of the itineraries, including the changes in the relationship between the king and his subjects and the impression the royal itinerary made upon contemporary chroniclers and writers. Chapter eight provides an overview of the conclusions reached. Part II is formed of an extended Appendix. This appendix presents the full analysis for each of the years studied in this thesis (1199-1226, 1234-41, 1244-52, 1274-6, 1278, 1280-1, 1285, 1290-3 and 1305), as well as overall information on the locations visited by each king, which formed the basis of the analysis discussed in Part I.

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Haskell, David Louis. "Tarascan kingship the production of hierarchy in the prehispanic Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0022858.

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