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"The Blood of Kings replaces a highly romanticized conjectural image of the Classic Lowland Maya civilization (fl. 250-900 c.e.) as a peaceful, primitively agrarian theocracy attended by anonymous calendar priests who were learned in astronomy and lived in ceremonial centers to which the general populace was invited to witness spectacle and ritual with irrefutable evidence that the Maya lived in cities, had a highly advanced agricultural system, engaged in constant warfare among their city-states, and were ruled by dynastic kings who commissioned major artworks to memorialize themselves and ensure their place in history and who shed their own blood and that of their captives in bloodletting rituals that had dynastic, religious, and cosmic significance. Drawing upon varied sources in other fields in addition to those in their disciplines of art and art history, the authors provide a comprehensive guide to the Maya that is informative to neophytes, satisfying to amateur Maya enthusiasts and useful to students, teachers, and scholars in the field, and that leads to a realistic vision of a culture and civilization built upon the blood of its divine kings. This vision is never clearer t

Who reads The Blood of Kings : Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art?

Author

Linda Schele, Mary Ellen Miller; photographs by Justin Kerr

Publisher

Sotheby's Publications in association with the Kimbell Art Museum

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807612781

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.46 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14