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Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.

Kings and rulers. --- Eurasia --- Eurasia. --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Asia --- Europe --- History

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World history --- History, Modern --- Kings and rulers --- Monarchy --- History --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Tsars --- Tzars --- History. --- Kings and rulers - History --- Monarchy - History

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Kings and rulers --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Charles --- Karel --- Carolus --- Charles-Quint --- Karl --- Keizer Karel --- Carlos --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Tsars --- Tzars

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In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. The divine, the stranger, the numinous, the bestial the implications for understanding kings and their sacred office are not limited to questions of sovereignty, but issues ranging from temporality and alterity to piracy and utopia; indeed, the authors argue that kingship offers us a unique window into the fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition. With the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of these two thinkers, this volume opens up new avenues for how an anthropological study of kingship might proceed in the 21st century.

Chiefdoms. --- Kings and rulers. --- Political anthropology. --- Kings and rulers --- Political anthropology --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Bad König --- König