... Anglo Saxon society Beowulf Falk Oren kingship medieval kings Agamben G Carolingian kings Foucault Michel Frankish kings homo sacer Merovingian kings Ganshof FL suzerainty Bodin Jean Schmitt Carl Roberts Simon Berman H Enlightenment prison sentences Sellin Thorsten Rechtsstaat res...

...Persian sources from the Mughal period have created an image of Afghan rulers like Sikandar Lodi and Sher Shah as bigots. The acts of violence were however linked to rebellion in the region, or were a part of political subjugation. The chieftains who accepted the suzerainty of the Afghan kings...

... of treaties, of Israel and Judah to the superpowers of the time―Assyria, Egypt, Babylon―to whom they surrendered their suzerainty and whose kings in effect they ‘set over’ themselves. The chapter rejects the view that Assyrian hegemony required vassal states to worship the suzerain’s gods, but suggests...

.... The common person in this scheme emerges as a servant, the lowest rung in the hierarchy, as evidenced in Mesopotamian creation epics Atrahasis, and echoed in Egypt and Ugarit well. The theology of covenant in the Pentateuch rejects this. In light of parallels with Late Bronze Age suzerainty treaties...

.... The nomadic threat therefore challenged the very basis of the dual hierarchy of the Two Eyes system. clientelism hierarchy nomads Huns diplomacy suzerainty 101 The world of the fifth century was a time of dramatic change, with the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 ad and the final collapse...

... subsidiary alliance agriculture Ahom Burma Kuki Scott James C Pandua Das Gupta Sanjukta army landscape perceptions mercantile trade territorial rule property right subjecthood suzerainty sovereignty fiscal subject British East India Company The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...

... Wang Demchugdongrob Korea Canadian missionaries in Mongolia British perception of post war situation in North Korean independence Chinese support for Vietnam Chinese French postwar relations and Vietnamese independence Chinese views on WWII Tibet India sovereignty suzerainty Shen Zonglian...

... displacement of some of the older, sedentary population of the region by nomadic Arabs from the south must have begun. At the same time, contacts with the Iranian world intensified as north-eastern Arabia first fell under Parthian suzerainty, and later became a province of the Sasanian empire. population...

...0 04 06 1992 The territory brought under Islamic suzerainty during the first century following the inception of the religion stretched from the shores of the Atlantic in the West to the Indian subcontinent in the East-a remarkable achievement given the relatively small forces that accomplished...

... theories were increasingly challenged, and notions of multiple modernities—assuming divergent paths to different manifestations of modernity—were fruitfully applied to research on Korean history. In this context, postcolonial theories and the Korean historical experience of suzerainty under Chinese...

... was fed by the surveys, launched with official approval, and by the need to print official maps of the region, now that it was under British suzerainty. Relations with China, moreover, were not to be put at risk either by ignorance of the border zones or the foolhardiness of Kashmir's Maharaja. Security...

...This chapter assesses the legality of China’s claim to Tibet. The Chinese government justified their invasion of Tibet by their claim to suzerainty. It is argued that if the history of Chinese suzerainty over Tibet is allowed to be justified, China has no right and has violated the independence...

...0 04 06 1992 The territory brought under Islamic suzerainty during the first century following the inception of the religion stretched from the shores of the Atlantic in the West to the Indian subcontinent in the East—a remarkable achievement given the relatively small forces that accomplished...