Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe (Past and Present Publications) by Klaniczay, Gábor; Pálmai, Eva [Translator]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0521420180 . Xviii, 490, [iii] pp. Bibliography, index. 91 illustrations. Octavo. Glossy pale aqua/green dust jacket with b/w image of medieval kings. DJ has minor shelf wear, flaps intact. Book itself is clean and fresh, library stamp on title page but otherwise the book does not seem to have been catalogued. Good copy. Bit heavier than usually, probably because of the illustrations. ; Past & Present Publications; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 490 pages .

E-206: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2002. 512 pgs. Past and Present Publications. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Medieval dynasties relied frequently upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy, and in the central middle ages most royal dynasties included saints in their family. Within this context, the saints of the Hungarian ruling dynasty constitute a remarkable sequence, and provide a unique example of the late medieval evolution of royal and dynastic sainthood. Building upon a series of case studies from Hungary and central Europe, Gábor Klaniczay proposes an original new synthesis of the multiple forms and transformations of royal and… Read More

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