Emperors ruled the Holy Roman Empire - didn't they have at least one woman with them? This question is answered for the first time in this book: The empress was not only present when politics was ...made, but as an agent she was an important player in imperial politics.
Kaiser regierten das Heilige Römische Reich - hatten sie nicht wenigstens eine Frau dabei? Diese Frage wird im vorliegenden Buch erstmals beantwortet: Die Kaiserin war nicht nur dabei, wenn Politik gemacht wurde, sondern sie war als Handelnde eine wichtige Akteurin kaiserlicher Politik.
'Sacred Founders' argues that from the time of Augustus to early Byzantium, a discourse of these founders, articulated in art, literature, imperial honours and the built environment, helped ...legitimate the authority of the emperor and his family.
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.
The present collection forges new ground in the discussion of aristocratic and royal women, their relationships with their objects, and how they, through this material record, navigated the ...often-disparate spaces of Byzantium, Eastern, and Western Europe from 400 to 1500.
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