Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Part 1 Premodern Rulership
6. Assembly Politics and Conflicting Discourses in Early Medieval León (10th-11th c.) 21
7. The Supreme Power of the Armour and the Veneration of the Emperor’s Body in Twelfth-Century Byzantium 47
8. The Exultet of Bolesław II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages 73
9. ‘International’ Christian Society and Its Political Theology in Thirteenth- Century Latin Christendom 111
10. The King’s Immature Body 139
11. We Were the Trojans 169
12. The Life and Afterlife of Pontifical Indiscretions in the Renaissance 193
13. The Queen’s Two Faces 217
14. Part 2 Contemporary Political Power
15. Blood, Honour and the Norm 249
16. Dual Approaches to Communist Engagement 279
17. The Supermen’s Two Bodies 299
18. And Then They Were Bodies 321
19. List of Figures 353
20. General Bibliography 355
21. Index 417