The power of place : rulers and their palaces, landscapes, cities, and holy places / David Rollason.

• Introduction -- Part I. Palaces -- The Power of Design -- The Power of Architectural Style and Decoration -- Part II. Landscapes -- Gardens, Parks, and Power -- The Power of Forests and the Hunt -- Part III. Cities -- Cities, Planning, and Power -- Triumphs and Entries : the City as Stage Set -- Part IV. Holy Places -- Power, Place, and Relics -- Churches, Mosques, and Power -- Part V. Inauguration-Places and Burial-Places -- The Inauguration of Rulers : Places and Rituals -- Death and Power : The Burial Places of Rulers -- Conclusion.

• "The Power of Place explores the nature of power--the power of kings, emperors, and popes--through 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 centuries--from Prague and Seville to Palermo and the Oslo Fjord--David Rollason examines how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages were. Rollason draws on the latest research in a range of disciplines--principally archaeology, and the histories of art, architecture, and landscape, as well as historical and literary studies--to 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 preserved palace-church of the emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, and the soaring shrine-church of the Saint-Chapelle of King Louis IX. Giving readers the tools to analyze rulers' palaces, landscapes, cities, and holy places, The Power of Place offers a fascinating perspective on the development of power throughout history"-- 

Ämnesord

Antiken  (sao)

Medeltiden  (sao)

Kungar och härskare  (sao)

Landskap  (sao)

Makt (samhällsvetenskap)  (sao)

Politik  (sao)

Arkitektur  -- historia (sao)

Palaces  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Landscapes  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Cities and towns  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Sacred space  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Historic sites  -- Europe. (LCSH)

Architecture and state  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Power (Social sciences)  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Architecture and state.  (fast)

Cities and towns.  (fast)

Historic sites.  (fast)

Landscapes.  (fast)

Palaces.  (fast)

Politics and government.  (fast)

Power (Social sciences)  (fast)

Sacred space.  (fast)

Palats  -- historia (sao)

HISTORY  -- Europe -- General. (bisacsh)

ARCHITECTURE  -- History -- General. (bisacsh)

HISTORY  -- Ancient -- General. (bisacsh)

Kings and rulers  -- Homes and haunts. (fast)

Landscapes  (LCSH)

Power (Social sciences)  (LCSH)

Kings and rulers  (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Europe  -- Kings and rulers -- Homes and haunts. (LCSH)

Europe  -- History, Local. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Politics and government. (LCSH)

Europe.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Local history.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ic:oa Arkitektur: konstsociologi

Ka Historia: Europa

Klassifikation

940.099 (DDC)

Ic:oa (kssb/8)

Ka (kssb/8)