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This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. This shared ideal, while often generating conflict during the four centuries of the empires' coexistence (224-642), also drove exchange, especially the means and methods Roman and Persian sovereigns used to project their notions of universal rule: elaborate systems of ritual and their cultures' visual, architectural, and urban environments. Matthew Canepa explores the artistic, ritual, and ideological interactions between Rome and the Iranian world under the Sasanian dynasty, the last great Persian dynasty before Islam. He analyzes how these two hostile systems of sacred universal sovereignty not only coexisted, but fostered cross-cultural exchange and communication despite their undying rivalry. Bridging the traditional divide between classical and Iranian history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of two global powers that deeply affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, and China.

Monarchy --- Rites and ceremonies --- Sassanids --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs. --- Rome --- Iran --- Relations --- Kings and rulers. --- ancient history. --- ancient rome. --- ancient societies. --- ancient world. --- art. --- byzantium. --- china. --- classical heritage. --- classical history. --- court life. --- engaging. --- europe. --- global politics. --- global powers. --- historical. --- iranian history. --- islam. --- kingship. --- medieval europe. --- medieval society. --- medieval times. --- near east. --- nonfiction study. --- persian empire. --- pivotal period. --- political history. --- roman empire. --- rome. --- royal intrigue. --- royalty. --- sacred kingship. --- sasanian iran. --- south asia.

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This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. This shared ideal, while often generating conflict during the four centuries of the empires' coexistence (224-642), also drove exchange, especially the means and methods Roman and Persian sovereigns used to project their notions of universal rule: elaborate systems of ritual and their cultures' visual, architectural, and urban environments. Matthew Canepa expl

Monarchy --- Rites and ceremonies --- Romans --- Sassanids --- Monarchie --- Rites et cérémonies --- Romains --- Sassanides --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs --- Aspect social --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Rome --- Iran --- Relations --- Kings and rulers. --- Rois et souverains --- Iran --Kings and rulers. --- Iran --Relations --Rome. --- Monarchy --Social aspects --Iran. --- Monarchy --Social aspects --Rome. --- Rites and ceremonies --Iran. --- Rites and ceremonies --Rome. --- Romans --Social life and customs. --- Rome --Kings and rulers. --- Rome --Relations --Iran. --- Sassanids --Social life and customs. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Italy --- Rites et cérémonies --- Sasanians --- Sassanians --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran

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The Seleucid Empire presided over one of the most pivotal and creative periods of Iranian history, a fact that has often been elided or misunderstood in both ancient and modern historiography. Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History examines the Seleucid Empire within the context of ancient Iranian history from an interdisciplinary standpoint and seeks to integrate it more fully into the history of Iranian empires. It brings together a wide variety of perspectives, including landscape archaeology, art history, cuneiform studies, as well as political, economic, maritime and religious history. This volume presents the contributions of the conference on the same topic organized by the editors of this volume, which took place on February 24th–25th 2020 at the University of California Irvine (Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Iranian Studies), the third in the series of the “Payravi Conferences on Ancient Iranian History”.

Seleucids. --- Iran --- History. --- Seleucids --- History --- Séleucides --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Seleucid Empire. --- Histoire

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Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments. These interactions moved from accommodation and toleration, to cooptation, control, or suppression; from aligning with a single religion to celebrating religious diversity or even inventing a new transcendent civic religion; and from lavish patronage to indifference. The volume's contributors investigate these dynamics in major Eurasian empires-from those that functioned in a relatively tolerant religious landscape (Ashokan India, early China, Hellenistic, and Roman empires) to those that allied with a single proselytizing or non-proselytizing creed (Sassanian Iran, Christian and Islamic empires), to those that tried to accommodate different creeds through "pay for pray" policies (Tang China, the Mongols), exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices.

Aniquity. --- Empire. --- Eurasia. --- Middle Ages. --- Religion.