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How rulers in ancient and medieval Europe expressed their power through cities, buildings, and sites The Power of Place explores the nature of powerthe power of kings, emperors, and popesthrough the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across all of Europe from the first to the sixteenth centuriesfrom Prague and Seville to Palermo and the Oslo FjordDavid Rollason examines how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages were. Rollason draws on the latest research in a range of disciplinesprincipally archaeology, and the histories of art, architecture, and landscape, as well as historical and literary studiesto investigate what the power of rulers consisted of. Was their power based on impersonal bureaucratic mechanisms, on personal relationships between rulers and subjects, or on strong beliefs in the quasi-divine status of rulers? How did impressive edifices support and emphasize these practices of power? Rollason takes readers to spectacular sites, including the remarkable remains of the tenth-century city of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba, the remarkably

Author

David W. Rollason

Publisher

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691167626

Subjects

History, Science, Humanities