Empty bottles of gentilism : kingship and the divine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (to 1050) / Francis Oakley.

Author: Oakley, Francis.

Imprint:New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.

Descriptionxiii, 306 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Prologomenon: the cosmic kingship in Mediterranean antiquity. Historical orientation: Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hebraic, and Roman antiquity ; Ancient affections: the archaic pattern of royal sacrality and the Hellenistic legacy ; Abrahamic departures: the Hebraic and Christian contribution -- The long twilight of the sacral kingship in Greek and Latin Christendom (c. 300-c.1050). Historical orientation: the heirs of Rome ; Patristic affirmation: the Greek fathers and the Eusebian tradition in Christian Rome, Byzantium, and Russia ; Patristic reservation: the Latin fathers from Tertullain to Augustine ; The early Medieval west (i): sacral kingship in the Germanic successor kingdoms ; The early Medieval west (ii): fidelity, consent, and the emergence of "feudal" institutions -- The early Medieval west (iii): the clerical order and the rise of the papal monarchy.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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