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This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.

Rajput (Indic people) --- India --- History --- Rajasthan (Indic people) --- Rajasthani (Indic people) --- Rajpoot (Indic people) --- Rajputs --- Ethnology --- Raiput (Indic people) --- Early Colonial Encounter, Borderlands, Himalaya, Rajput, Kingship, State Formation.

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Picturing Royal Charisma assesses how Middle Eastern leaders manipulated visuals to advance their rule from around 4500 BC to the 19th century AD. In nine fascinating narratives, it showcases the dynamics of long-lasting Middle Eastern traditions, dealing with the visualization of those who stood at the head of the social order. The contributions discuss: Mesopotamian kings who cast themselves as divine representatives in art; the relationships between the 'king of men' and 'king of beasts' - the lion; Akhenaten's visual conception of a divine king without hybrid attributes; the royal image as guiding movements of visitors in the palace of Nimrud; continuities in the functions and representation of Neo-Assyrian eunuchs that survived in the Achaemenid, Sasanian, Byzantine and Islamic courts; the triumphal arch of the emperor Titus and its reflections in Christian Constantinople; patterns of authority and royal legitimacy in 3rd century AD Palmyra and Rome; the use of the Biblical past in the construction of kingship in 12th century Crusader Jerusalem; and the use of 'the power of images' by Islamic rulers, adopting visuals of thrones and throne-rooms despite Islamic opposition to the figurative portrayal of kings.

Social sciences --- Islamic Thrones --- Titus Arch --- Turris David --- Mesopotamian Kings --- Lions --- Palmira --- Royal imagery --- Frankish Jerusalem --- Royal Art --- Kings --- Amarna Art --- Kingship --- Social Science / Archaeology

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This book explores how political power was conceptualised, constructed, and wielded in 12th-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardansh (r. 1147-1172). Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as El Rey Lobo/Rex Lupus and denigrated by Almohad and later Arabic sources as irreligious and disloyal to fellow Muslims because he fought the Almohads and served as vassal to the Castilians, Ibn Mardansh ruled a kingdom that at its peak constituted nearly half of al-Andalus and served as an important buffer between the Almohads and the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Through a close examination of contemporary sources across the region, the book shows that Ibn Mardansh's short-lived dynasty was actually an attempt to integrate al-Andalus more closely with the Islamic East-particularly the Abbasid caliphate.

Islam --- History. --- Ibn Mardanīsh, Muḥammad ibn Saʻd, --- Spain --- History --- Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Judhamī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Tujībī, Muḥammad ibn Saʻd ibn Mardanīsh, --- Rex Lupus, --- Rey Lobo, --- Rey Lope, --- Wolf King, --- Failed dynasties, Ibn Mardanīsh, Almohad al-Andalus, Twelfth-century Western Mediterranean history, kingship in the Middle Ages, medieval Iberia and Spain. --- Muslims --- Power (Social sciences) --- Islam and politics --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Kings and rulers --- Religious aspects. --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- European history.

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In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.

Bacchantes in literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Mythology, Greek --- Bacchantes dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Mythologie grecque --- Drama --- Théâtre --- Euripides. --- Dionysus --- Pentheus, --- In literature --- Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature --- Pentheus (Greek mythology) in literature --- Tragedy --- Euripides --- Euripide --- Bacchantes dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Théâtre --- In literature. --- Dionysos (Divinite grecque) dans la litterature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Achelous. --- Actaeon. --- Amphitryon. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anthesteria. --- Archelaus of Macedon. --- Artemis. --- Bacchylides. --- Cronos. --- Demeter. --- Democritus. --- Dionysiac poetics. --- Dithyrambus. --- Echidna. --- Evil Mother. --- Golden Age. --- Heracles. --- Heraclitus. --- Icarius. --- Iophon. --- Macedon. --- Melanthus. --- adolescence. --- agriculture. --- anagnorisis. --- boundaries. --- brochos. --- cannibalism. --- carnival. --- catharsis. --- chthonic. --- culture-hero. --- doubling. --- enclosure. --- epiphany. --- flight. --- forest. --- gates. --- hair. --- hands. --- hunt. --- kentron. --- kingship, sacred. --- landscape. --- libation. --- liminal. --- loom. --- male womb. --- metamorphosis. --- mountain. --- myth. --- narthex. --- nature. --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс

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In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint Louis’s translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.

Social & cultural history --- Capetian --- Charlemagne --- Crown --- Cult --- France --- King --- Kingship --- Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) --- mediaeval christianity --- mediaeval Europe --- mediaeval hagiography --- Pysiak --- Relics --- Saint-Denis Abbey --- Thorns --- Louis --- Jesus Christ --- Jesus Christ. --- Relics. --- Louis, --- Ludovicus, --- Ludovik --- Ludwig, --- Luwīs al-Tāsiʻ, --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Christ --- Christ, Jesus --- Christo --- Christos --- Chrystus --- Cristo --- Ges --- Gesú Cristo --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Iėsu̇s --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Isa Al-Masih --- Isa, --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Jesucristo --- Jesuo --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Ježí --- Jezus --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jíizis --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- Khristos --- Kʻristos --- Kristus --- Masī --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Nabi Isa --- Yeh-su --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Yéshoua --- Yeshua --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Yesu --- Yesus --- Masīḥ --- Gesù --- Ježíš --- Nabi Isa --- -Jesus, --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- ‏عيسىٰ‏