Rituals of royalty : power and ceremonial in traditional societies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
| Series: | Past and present publications.
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Table of Contents:
- Usurpation, conquest, and ceremonial : from Babylon to Persia / Amélie Kuhrt
- From noble funerals to divine cult : the consecration of Roman emperors / Simon Price
- The construction of court ritual : the Byzantine Book of ceremonies / Averil Cameron
- The Lord's anointed and the people's choice : the Carolingian royal ritual / Janet L. Nelson
- Bureaucrats and cosmology : the ritual code of T'ang China / David McMullen
- Gifts to the gods : power, property and ceremonial in Nepal / Richard Burghart
- The ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar : the dissolution of death, birth and fertility into authority / Maurice Bloch
- The person of the king : ritual and power in a Ghanaian state / Michelle Gilbert.