This week on the blog: A fireside chat discussing the difference between monarchy (or kingship) and tyranny and how that should condition our expectations for modern authoritarian systems:https://acoup.blog/2021/07/09/fireside-friday-july-9-2021/ …
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One thing that comes to mind is the fact that a lot of the first states merged the role of king with that of high priest. Perhaps something similar goes on when a tyranny is reforged into a monarchy as when states emerged before there was any state tradition at all?
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Kingship functionally always features the king invested with some kind of religious power or significance. The way I teach it, kingship is defined by three jobs across cultures: chief general, chief judge, chief priest. True for ancient Mesopotamia as much as for Queen Bess II.
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