Tag: Rulers

Free Download Srdjan Vidakovic, Pamela Trush, "The King’s Curriculum: Self-Initiation for Self-Rulers"
English | 2020 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 1734571306, 1734571322 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
The King’s Curriculum is an idea, a philosophy and a cosmology built upon the ancient tradition of Sacred Kingship. It connects man with his True Will and leads him on a divine path, securing his own Crown, Throne, and Kingdom in the process.

Free Download Paul Naylor, "From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State "
English | ISBN: 1847013708 | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 16 MB
A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.

Free Download Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North by Gordon Noble, Nicholas Evans
English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 1780277784 | 336 pages | PDF | 49 Mb
Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize 2023

Free Download Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre, "Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319687700, 3319886568 | PDF | pages: 359 | 4.5 mb
Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today.

Free Download Christian Raffensperger, "Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200"
English | ISBN: 1032482893 | 2023 | 324 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership.

Free Download England and its Rulers: 1066: 1307 (Blackwell Classic Histories of England), 4th Edition by Michael T. Clanchy
English | March 4th, 2014 | ISBN: 1118736230 | 366 pages | True PDF | 6.75 MB
This is an updated and expanded edition of a classic introduction to medieval England from the reign of William the Conqueror to Edward I.

Free Download Barcelona and its Rulers, 1096-1291 By Stephen P. Bensch
1995 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0521435110 | PDF | 5 MB
Based on extensive archival research, this volume examines the early growth of Barcelona in order to understand the causes of the European economic take-off. The city did not at first grow because of overseas trade but because of market-oriented agriculture and tribute from Islamic Spain. Only after a difficult adjustment did the city develop the commercial foundations that would later ensure its prosperity. Barcelona’s patriciate rose to prominence during the second stage of growth, also a period dominated by a struggle for power in Catalonia. Here, the family structure of the patriciate receives close examination, and in general the volume challenges many traditional assumptions about the nature of Mediterranean towns.

Free Download Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200; 1
by Raffensperger Christian
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1000921646 | 325 pages | True PDF | 9 MB

Free Download Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe: Alfred, Charles the Bald and Others By Janet L. Nelson
2020 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 0367197715 | PDF | 10 MB
First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of papers by Janet L. Nelson. She first examines King Alfred of Wessex (871-99) in the context of Anglo-Saxon conditions and in comparison with his Carolingian contemporaries. When tension and conflict within the royal family are highlighted, she argues that Alfred’s talents and political thought emerge the more impressively. A second group of papers deals with the reign of Charles the Bald (840-77): his patronage of learning and his interest in Spanish martyrs are set in political context, while contemporary historiography is considered as a form of counsel and critique. The third section reflects Nelson’s growing interest in the political importance and gendered roles of royal women. Consecration rites are analysed as ritual expressions and factors in the shaping of the queenship, while two final papers also examine the making and unmaking of Frankish kings and princes.