• Walter POHL – Andre GINGRICH (Eds.)

Empires: Elements of Cohesion and
Signs of Decay

medieval worlds 2 (2015)

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Table of Contents

Walter POHL, Editor’s Introduction: Empires – Elements of Cohesion and Signs of Decay
Mayke DE JONG, The Empire that was always Decaying: The Carolingians (800-888)
Simon MACLEAN, Cross-Channel Marriage and Royal Succession in the Age of Charles the Simple and Athelstan (c. 916-936)
Andrew J. NEWMAN, ›Great Men‹, ›Decline‹ and Empire: Safavid Studies and a Way Forward?
Jeroen DUINDAM, Dynasties
Susan REYNOLDS, Nations, Tribes, Peoples and States
Glenn BOWMAN, Lieux Saints Partagés: An Analytical Review

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT

Johannes PREISER-KAPELLER, Calculating the Middle Ages? The Project »Complexities and Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean and Near East« (COMMED)

The journal is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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Dynasties

    Jeroen Duindam

MedievalWorlds.Empires: Elements of Cohesion and Signs of Decay, pp. 59-78, 2015/12/01

medieval worlds 2 (2015)

doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no2_2015s59

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Abstract

Dynasties are prominently present in world history. King lists, with individual reign names and dynastic era names, were a common form of time reckoning – a habit that persists in modern Japan. Rule across the globe most often took shape around a single person, attended by a household providing personal and administrative services, in a location that stood out from its environment. The term ›dynasty‹ did not originally relate to government by a single person or family. Greek dynasteia denotes lordship or sovereignty in general. In his Politics, Aristotle uses dynasteia, usually translated as ›rule of the powerful‹, when he refers to oligarchies dominated by a handful of families tending towards hereditary power. Did dynasty pertain to one ›form of government‹, or should we understand it as a more pervasive social practice? This paper reconsiders the idea of dynasty by examining it in a global perspective. Different forms of kinship generate different types of dynasties. Moreover, dynasty was never based only on kinship rules and the hazards of reproduction: succession took many forms and the same holds true for the cultural representations of dynastic power. Which variants of dynasty can be found across the globe, and how were clans of royals constructed? How important was pedigree for the authority of these dynasties?

Keywords: dynasties; succession; kinship; kingmaking

Published Online: 2015/12/01 12:36:22

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