Monarchies 1000-2000 by William M Spellman

Monarchies 1000-2000 by William M Spellman

"Monarchies 1000 2000" surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in scope and comparative in approach, W. M. Spellman's survey establishes connections between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts across a millennium when the system was without serious rival. Spellman examines the intellectual assumptions behind different models of monarchy, tracing the ways in which each of these assumptions shifted in response to historical factors. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly in the modern period, monarchy's remarkable longevity invites us to weigh the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as constants of the human experience."

Wide-ranging.. One of the book7;s great strengths is the rigorously comparative perspective Spellman brings to his material. The book presents a convincing portrait of the large role monarchs and monarchy have played in the development of human political organizations, and would provide an excellent resource for teaching or a beginning point for discussion.-- Sixteenth Century Journal

W. M. Spellman is professor of history and humanities at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of "The Latitudinarians and the Church of England, 1660 1700" (1993) and "European Political Thought, 1600 1700" (1998)."

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ISBN 13	9781780230504
ISBN 10	1780230508
Title	Monarchies 1000-2000
Author	William M Spellman
Series	Reaktion Books - Globalities
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Year published	2006-12-01
Number of pages	320
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