Acknowledgments
Note on Contributors
List of Illustrations
“Every Inch a King”. Kings and Kingship from Antiquity to the
Medieval World, Lynette Mitchell and Charles Melville
Defining the Divine in Achaemenid Persian Kingship: The View from
Bisitun, Margaret Cool Root
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Fictive History, Political Analysis and
Thinking with Iranian Kings, Christopher Tuplin
Alexander the Great: Divinity and the Rule of Law, Lynette
Mitchell
Seleucus I, Zeus and Alexander, Kyle Erickson
Machiavelli and Xenophon’s Cyrus: Searching for the Modern
Conceptions of Monarchy, Waller Newell
Ruling ‘Virtually’? Royal Images in Medieval English Law Books,
Anthony Musson
The Anomalous King of Conquered England, Laura Ashe
Telling Tales of Adulterous Queens in Medieval England: From
Olympias of Macedonia to Elizabeth Woodville, Joanna Laynesmith
Royalty Reflected in the Chronicles of Froissart, Peter
Ainsworth
Breaking and Making Tradition: Æthelstan, ‘Abd-ar-Rahman III, and
their Panegyrists, Shane Bobrycki
The King as Subject, Master and Model of Authority: The Case of
Alfonso X of Castile, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
God and Caesar: The Dynamics of Visigothic Monarchy, Andrew
Fear
‘On the Road Again’: Kings, Roads, and Accommodation in High
Medieval Germany, John Bernhardt
Ruling from the Outside: A New Perspective on Early Turkish
Kingship in Iran, David Durand-Guédy
The Royal Image in Mongol Iran, Charles Melville
Architecture and the Representations of Kingship During the Reign
of the Safavid Shah ‘Abbas I, Kishwar Rizvi
Index
Charles Melville, Ph.D. (1978) in Oriental Studies, University of
Cambridge, is Professor of Persian History at Cambridge and
Director of the Cambridge Shahnama Project. He has published
extensively on the history and historiography of Mongol and Safavid
Persia, including recently Epic of the Persian Kings: the art of
Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, with Barbara Brend (London, 2010).
Lynette Mitchell, Ph.D. (1994) in Greek History at the University
of Durham, is Associate Professor in Greek History and Politics at
the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek history
political thought in the archaic and classical periods, and is
currently completing a monograph on kingship in archaic and
classical Greece.
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