Power of the Priests
| Titel: | Power of the Priests : Political Use of Religious Knowledge |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter ; De Gruyter [Imprint], 2024 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (327 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9783110676211 ; 9783110676327 ; 9783110676365 |
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- Preface
- v
- Introduction
- 1
- Shaping Policy: Case Study from Ancient Egypt
- The Political Role of an Egyptian Priest under the Early Ptolemies: The Case of Manetho
- 9
- Oracles as an Instrument for Political Decisions and Royal Legitimation: A Case Study of Ancient Egypt
- 35
- Experts for Teaching and Consulting
- Politics in the Life of Daniel the Stylite: The Holy Man as a Political Player in Late Antique Constantinople
- 55
- Did Brahmins have Power in Premodern India?
- 73
- Instrumentalizing the 'Priests'
- Ideologists, Instigators or 'Stage Props'? Priests and Popular Protest in the English Rising of 1381
- 97
- Gender, Politics and Religion in Antiquity: The Challenge of the Reign of Queen Alexandra
- 127
- 'Vassal' or 'political player'? Towards a re-assessment of Willibrord's political activity in Merovingian Francia (AD 690-739)
- 141
- Control of Knowledge: Documenting Priestly Power
- The Power of the Rabbis: Reading Urban Stories of Late Antiquity
- 161
- "Domination through Knowledge": The Sacred Dimension of Bureaucracy in the Oracular Sanctuary of Dodona
- 173
- Behind the Scene: Religion at the Service of Politics in Ancient Egypt: Views from Philae Island
- 199
- In the Field of Power: Priests and Legitimization
- Power through Pilgrimage: The Making of the Papacy
- 215
- A New Political Order in the Late Sixth Century BC Athens Powered by the Delphic Oracle
- 231
- Keepers of the Secrets of the Sky, the Earth, and the Underworld: The High Priests of Ptah at Memphis During the Kushite and the Saite-Persian Periods (c. 728-332 BC)
- 253
- Conclusion
- 307
- Index of Names
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