Tales of Royalty : notions of kingship in visual and textual narration in the Ancient Near East

Weitere Verfasser: Linke, Julia, , [HerausgeberIn]
Wagner-Durand, Elisabeth, , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2020
Umfang/Format: ix, 325 pages: illustrations; 24 cm
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Parallelausgabe: ales of Royalty (Online version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Bound by Stories?! Narration as a Strategy of Royal Legitimation: An Introduction
  • “Pious Shepherd” and “Guardian of Truth”: In Search of the Narrative Visualization of the Kings’ Piety and Righteousness
  • The Literate King Reconsidered: Self-representation, Wisdom, and Learnedness
  • Response: Das Narrativ vom guten König
  • Building, Arts, and Politics: Narrative Elements in the Depiction of “Building Kings”
  • Narratives of Building Activities as an Element of Royal Legitimation
  • Response
  • Kings or Soldiers? Representations of Fighting Heroes at the End of the Early Bronze Age
  • Der Feldzugsbericht in Šū-Sîns Königsinschriften im Vergleich zu Verwaltungsurkunden: Die Grenze zwischen Erzählung und Geschichte im Rahmen der Königsdarstellung
  • “The True Image of the God…:” Adoration of the King’s Image, Assyrian Imperial Cult and Territorial Control
  • Down with “Legitimacy”: On “Validity” and Narrative in Royal Tales
  • Narratology: Selected Terms and Concepts with a Focus on the Ancient Near East
  • Response: Two Tales of Royalty, Or the Intermediality of Image and Text in the Third millennium BCE
  • Strategies of Legitimation of the Aramaean Kings in Ancient Syria: Three Case Studies on Damascus, Hamath and Yādiya/Samʾal
  • “The True Image of the God…:” Adoration of the King’s Image, Assyrian Imperial Cult and Territorial Control
  • Down with “Legitimacy”: On “Validity” and Narrative in Royal Tales
  • Narratology: Selected Terms and Concepts with a Focus on the Ancient Near East
  • Why Study “Narration” in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Assyriology? – Potentials and Limitations
  • List of Contributors
  • Indices