New release: Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity. Edited by Henning Börm
26. October 2015
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2015
(Studies in Ancient Monarchies, 3)
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When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of the – real or merely anticipated – criticism against the background of which monarchic legitimization was expressed: what conditions, what elements, and what strategies were characteristic of a critical discussion of monocracy in antiquity, and to what extent was the relationship between ruler ideology and antimonarchic sentiment marked by mutual dependence? What significance did the eternal background noise possess which as a contre-discourse compelled rulers in Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece and Rome to justify themselves again and again? (publisher)
With contributions from Henning Börm, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Josef Wiesehöfer, Nino Luraghi, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Steffen Diefenbach, Federico Russo, Ann-Cathrin Harders, Ulrich Gotter, Mihály Loránd Dészpa, Meron M. Piotrkowski, and Matthias Haake.
Dr. Henning Börm is research associate for Acient History at the University of Konstanz. Between April 2014 and March 2015, he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz.
The Center of Excellence has funded the translation and foreign language copy-editing of the articles of this book.