Rituals of Royalty

Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies

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Paperback | 22 June 1992

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Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. The essays in this book - all specially written for it - address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, namely the relation between power and anthropologists, and the traditional societies examined range from ancient Babylon to nineteenth-century Madagascar, from medieval Europe to contemporary Ghana.

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'This book well represents some of the richness of recent work on ritual, ceremonial, pomp, or whatever other term one chooses to use ... How power works is one of the oldest philosophical issues ... one of its most essential aspects, its self-presentation, is greatly illuminated by the essays in this book.' History 'This is ... a collection of fascinating studies, ranging from Babylon to twentieth-century Ghana, from China to Madagascar ... Professional historians of the modern period, as well as others, would do well to take ritual seriously.' London Review of Books

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List of illustrations	p. vi
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: divine rites of kings	p. 1
Usurpation, conquest and ceremonial: from Babylon to Persia	p. 20
From noble funerals to divine cult: the consecration of Roman Emperors	p. 56
The construction of court ritual: the Byzantine Book of Ceremonies	p. 106
The Lord's anointed and the people's choice: Carolingian royal ritual	p. 137
Bureaucrats and cosmology: the ritual code of T'ang China	p. 181
Gifts to the gods: power, property and ceremonial in Nepal	p. 237
The ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar: the dissolution of death, birth and fertility into authority	p. 271
The person of the king: ritual and power in a Ghanaian state	p. 298
Index	p. 331
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