...” is accurate, the chapter considers onomastic, literary, and architectural/archaeological evidence. It concludes that these distinguished dead could be mobilized to undermine royal authority; specifically, the distinguished dead were invoked in the imakhu kher formula that is shown...

... the Heike in this long temporal framework, the author sheds light on a hidden history of royal authority that was entangled in Daoist and yin-yang ideas in the Nara period, practices centered on defilement in the Heian period, and Buddhist doctrines pertaining to original enlightenment...

...This chapter investigates the 1185 Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus in order to consider the way that royal authority and the law shaped the experience of noblewomen, but also to provide a cautionary account of the degree to which such sources present...

... security but also for its status as well as his recognition of the importance of the symbolism of royal authority. The chapter also looks at Becket's election and consecration as archbishop, along with the postponement of young Henry's coronation due to the growing tensions between Henry II and Becket...

...This chapter compares and contrasts the three parliaments of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the 1640s and 1650s. In 1640 these institutions formed part of the machinery of government by monarchy, and their relations with royal authority rested on unwritten constitutions. During the wars...

... modified version of “The Discovery and Assimilation of British Constitutional Law Principles in Quebec, 1764–1774” (2013) 36(2) Dalhousie Law Journal 581–616 . After 1760, constitutional debates occurred in French Canada on issues ranging from the contestation of royal authority...

... Iliad 2 197 Iliad 9 25 Iliad 9 32–3 Iliad 9 35 Iliad 9 37–9 Alkē Iliad 8 139–44 Horses Memory Menos Iliad 9 39 kratos democracy politics signification Derrida deconstruction Odysseus Agamemnon Diomedes royal authority In the beginning of Book 2 of the Iliad...

... of royal authority in colonial times, and the interpretative battles in the early years of the republic. It identifies the framers that wanted an effective president who would not be a king and points out how a republican executive was meant to function. Constitutional Convention executive powers framers...

... archduchess of Austria and ruler of the Spanish Netherlands royal succession as political issue Philip II of Spain ‘popularity’ royal authority papal political power Catholic loyalism civil obedience conversion of England Over against what they portrayed as the aberrant positions of the Jesuits...

...In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Crown of Aragon in Spain was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit with an original form of representative government. Throughout this period, a series of energetic and talented rulers sought to maintain royal authority and govern...

... and the possibility of constructing the kingdom of God on earth as well as the argument over the exercise of royal authority between Ivan IV and Prince Andrei Mikhailovskii Kurbskii. Chateaubriand François René de Vicomte Constant Benjamin Diderot Denis Ficino Marsilio Havel Václav Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich...

... of the countryside. Replicating this pattern on the peninsula, Korea submitted animals (some alive, some dead) to the Mongols and Ming as tribute obligations and traded other forms of animals with Jurchens along the frontier. Considering animals as tribute illustrates the growing limitation of royal authority over...

... on noble power in discussing the turbulent politics of later sixteenth-century Scottish politics: resistance to royal authority; engagement in politicised religion; and involvement in disorder. Dutch Republic England bloodfeud coup palace education noble France Mary queen Mary of Guise rebellion...

... Nechtan son of Der Ile king of Picts Picts Cassian John Psalms viii Virgil cross Rome Cummian Wilfrid bishop Scotia ‘Ireland’ then ‘Scotland’ Atholl Céti or Coeddi bishop of Iona dead bodies burial Jonah Christ Adomnán Iona Vita Columbae De locis sanctis Cáin Adomnáin royal authority...

...This concluding chapter analyzes the sociopolitical and historical impact of the esteemed dead of ancient Egypt. It re-affirms that the mobilization of these esteemed dead undermined royal authority and was one of many catalysts that contributed to the decline of royal authority at the end...

... the county of Chester for the crown and, after the death of Llywelyn, reasserted royal authority in Wales. He appears both as a legislator, concerned with the welfare of his realm, and as a reformer, reordering the finances of the crown. His accommodation with the political community was shown...

... Ermina William de Colchester castle Corfe Dorset castle Devizes Wilts Hadleigh Essex Rabayne Elyas de Henry III England royal authority great council reform royal court Henry of Bath Sicilian affair Henry arrived at Dover on Sunday 26 December 1254. The large reception party, headed...

...This chapter describes the archaeology of the royal palace of El Perú-Waka’. This structure, only partially explored, reflects the royal history of Classic Maya kingship in its architecture. The architecture served royal authority as an effective tool to spread messages that affirmed the ruler’s...

... rooted in, inter alia, dynastic unions between royal houses. The period is framed in part by attempts to secure political consensus and stability through alliances of this kind. Secondly we have a series of narratives which record contemporary critiques of royal authority, critiques...