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This volume is the collaborative effort of several Egyptological scholars from the United States, Canada, Egypt, and England; each contribution is a comprehensive investigation of a specific aspect of kingship in ancient Egypt and represents a particular area of expertise of that author. The first part of the book examines the nature of kingship and the role of the ruler. The second part of the book focuses on the role of kingship and its characterization in particular periods. The last section of the volume consists of two studies on the concretization of royalty in architectural contexts. Ancient Egyptian Kingship is the most comprehensive work in English on the subject since Henri Frankfort published Kingship and the Gods in 1948. Richly illustrated with photographs, plans, and diagrams, it is a new, extensively researched analysis of the topic

Introduction : the character of kingship / Declan Quigley -- Forms of sacralized power in Africa / Luc de Heusch -- Sacred king, sacrificial victim, surrogate victim or Frazer, Hocart, Girard / Lucien Scubla -- A reply to Lucien Scubla / Luc de Heusch -- Tragedy, ritual and power in Nilotic regicide : the regicidal dramas of the eastern Nilotes of Sudan in comparative perspective / Simon Simonse -- The transgressive nature of kingship in caste organization : monstrous royal doubles in Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine -- Kingship and untouchability / Declan Quigley -- Kingship and caste in Africa : history, diffusion and evolution / Tal Tamari -- King house : the mobile polity in northern Ghana / Susan Drucker-Brown -- Kings and tribes in east India : the internal political dimension / Burkhard Schnepel -- Japanese monarchy in historical and comparative perspective / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Chiefs and kings in Polynesia / Henri J. M. Claessen.

The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th-7th centuries AD) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. It lays a basis for a framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia.

The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th-7th centuries AD) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. It lays a basis for a framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia