Kingship

Francis Oakley is the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas and President Emeritus of Williams College, Massachusetts. He is also President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. In 1999 he was Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor of the History of Ideas at Oxford University. He is the author of The Medieval Experience (1988 [1974]), Omnipotence, Covenant,and Order (1984), The Conciliarist Tradition (2003), and Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights (2005).

List of Illustrations. Series Editor's Preface. Acknowledgments. Prologue: Matters of Perspective. 1. Gate of the Gods: Archaic and Global Patterns of Cosmic Kingship. 2. Royal Saviors and Shepherds: Hellenistic, Roman, Biblical, and Qur'anic views of Kingship. 3. The Eusebian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in Imperial Rome, Byzantium, and Russia. 4. The Carolingian Accommodation: Christian Rulership in the Germanic Successor Kingdoms of Western Europe. 5. Sacral Kingship in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: Papal, Imperial, National. 6. The Fading Nimbus: Modern Kingship and its Fate in a Disenchanted World. Epilogue: Survivals and Revivals. Notes. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index