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W.
M. Spellman.
Monarchies 1000 - 2000.
London: Reaktion
Books,
2001.
Globalities
series.
312pp.
Hardback ISBN
1861890877.
Publisher's
recommended price £25.00
Monarchies
1000-2000
surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary
consensus
but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in
scope
and comparative in approach, W. M. Spellman's survey establishes
connections
between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of historical and
cultural
contexts across a millennium when the system was without serious rival.
Spellman examines the intellectual assumptions behind different models
of monarchy, tracing the ways in which each of these assumptions
shifted
in response to historical factors including expanding literacy, the
development
of modern science and the growth of rationalism, and the decline of
institutional
religion. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly as
monarchy
in the modern period, the system's remarkable longevity invites us to
weight
the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as
constants
of the human experience.
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