Tales of royalty: notions of kingship in visual and textual narration in the ancient Near East

The volume sheds light on Ancient Near Eastern kingship by focusing on its constant urge for legitimation. Thus, it highlights specific aspects like royal building activities, warfare and wisdom and frames these into material and textual expressions that take the powerful form of narratives. The con...

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Körperschaft: Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Genf; Bern (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wagner-Durand, Elisabeth 1980- (HerausgeberIn), Linke, Julia 1983- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston ; Berlin De Gruyter [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:The volume sheds light on Ancient Near Eastern kingship by focusing on its constant urge for legitimation. Thus, it highlights specific aspects like royal building activities, warfare and wisdom and frames these into material and textual expressions that take the powerful form of narratives. The contributions made in this volume look for specific topoi of kingship and examine which shapes they took and why. The publication determines which narrative topoi have once been selected to legitimize kingship, which media have been chosen to transmit these narratives, and what kind of narrative strategies have been applied. To consider both, texts and images, in the same margin, the book is based on a dual approach: referring to certain narrative themes both philological and archaeological material will be presented. By joining diverse perspectives of scholars of material culture and texts and their various approaches the publication promises new and special insight into the connection of narration and legitimation in Mesopotamia. It reflects Ancient Near Eastern kingship and its narrative strategies from a interdisciplinary and transmedial point of view and gives new insights into the matter of royal legitimation
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (IX, 325 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501506895
9781501506857
DOI:10.1515/9781501506895

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