The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship by Matthew P. Canepa

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By Matthew P. Canepa

This pioneering examine examines a pivotal interval within the background of Europe and the close to East. Spanning the traditional and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared perfect of sacred kingship that emerged within the overdue Roman and Persian empires. This shared excellent, whereas usually producing clash through the 4 centuries of the empires' coexistence (224-642), additionally drove alternate, in particular the capability and strategies Roman and Persian sovereigns used to undertaking their notions of common rule: complicated structures of formality and their cultures' visible, architectural, and concrete environments. Matthew Canepa explores the creative, ritual, and ideological interactions among Rome and the Iranian international lower than the Sasanian dynasty, the final nice Persian dynasty sooner than Islam. He analyzes how those antagonistic platforms of sacred common sovereignty not just coexisted, yet fostered cross-cultural trade and conversation regardless of their timeless contention. Bridging the conventional divide among classical and Iranian heritage, this e-book brings to lifestyles the miraculous courts of 2 international powers that deeply affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, and China.

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