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The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places
David Rollason
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Description for The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places
Hardback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 37 color illus. 151 halftones. 33 line illus. 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1469g
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167626
SKU
V9780691167626
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About David Rollason
David Rollason is professor emeritus of history at the University of Durham. His books include Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: The Birth of Western Society and Northumbria 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom.
Reviews for The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places
Rollason's dazzling treasury of site descriptions and pictures is the product of years of exploration, on-site and in libraries... A well-guided and meticulously illustrated tour, of a good selection of medieval Europe's most striking palatial monuments.
Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement A grand tour, without hassle of airports, passports, or buses, of a sophisticated selection of medieval Europe's most ... Read more
Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement A grand tour, without hassle of airports, passports, or buses, of a sophisticated selection of medieval Europe's most ... Read more