Do you think Early Mediaeval English kingships draw upon pre-Roman models or consciously reject or speak to the Roman model?
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @OptimoPrincipi
I think that they draw from both Roman models and their own older conceptions of kingship. I hesitate to say it is an aping of Imperial attitudes, because I do not believe it is derivative and I think it’s a fallacy to think that.
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The thing is, the ideas of sacral kingship are older than Rome. I don’t really want to get into this pan-Indo-European thing but the idea of a sacral king reaches far and wide.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OptimoPrincipi
So is sacral kingship a capstone of Monarchy, vid Charles I England or the ideological buttresses of Louis XIV? Does kingship rely upon a notion of, and acknowledgement of, the sacred?
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @OptimoPrincipi
I couldn’t speak to anything later. But kingship imo relies on being sacred. Otherwise they’re just warlords. They need to set themselves above and apart, to justify their power over everyone else. And so we have the rituals and trappings of monarchy that relate back to God(s).
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OptimoPrincipi
I’m so intrigued by the post-Roman period in England. It was, AFAIK, a polytheistic polity with elites who were Christian in practice and faith. The evangelical missions of the Early Mediaeval period speak to a land polytheistic in nature.
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Was Early English kingship reliant upon Roman models or retrojected local models of sacred kingship?
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @OptimoPrincipi
Like I said, to reduce it to initiating a Roman model is a fallacy. It’s really too much to get into on Twitter, it’s complex.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OptimoPrincipi
Thanks for your patience, you’ve been too kind
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Lots of reading to do, I’m sad there isn’t that much on the era, always open to suggestions. Thanks again for taking the time to discuss this.
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I recommend, despite their age, the works by Wallace-Hadrill and Chaney. Outdated but some interesting things there. Also anything by Janet Nelson.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OptimoPrincipi
*Looks at pile of books in the study* sorry guys, not this year. Thank you again for the recommendations.
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