The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places

by David W. Rollason

Book Overview

How rulers in ancient and medieval Europe expressed their power through cities, buildings, and sites

The Power of Place explores the nature of power--the power of kings, emperors, and popes--through the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across all of Europe from the first to the sixteenth centuries--from Prague and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691167621
• ISBN13: 9780691167626
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.7" x 11.1"