The (City-)Gate and the Projection of Royal Power in Ḫatti

2012 ◽  
pp. 675-686
Author(s):  
J. L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Royal Power ◽  
The City

Sovereign Counterfeits: The Trial of the Pyx

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Wortham
Keyword(s):  
James I ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Formal Testing ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Current Standards

On 9 May 1611 James I broke with a royal custom that had been established for more than a century of Tudor rule. He attended the trial of the pyx at the Royal Mint in the city of London. This yearly ceremony was for the formal testing of sovereign moneys. It was designed to ensure that the manufacture of various denominations conformed to current standards set by the crown. While his Tudor predecessors had allowed previous trials to continue unattended by majesty, James's presence at the pyx in 1611 provided the occasion for a striking display of royal power.

scholarly journals The Making of Merovingian Paris: The Christianization of a Gallo-Roman city

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-278
Author(s):  
Tomás Pessoa
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
The Third ◽  
The City

The present paper intends to analyze the Christianization of the city of Paris and its growing importance in the Merovingian period. The article begins with an introduction of the context of the Gallo-Roman city and the transformations that happened during the final centuries of the Roman Empire. In the third section, the Merovingian Paris will be examined (6th-7th centuries), specifically its three most important churches. Finally, in the final section of the paper, the process on which Paris, a relatively unimportant city at a regional level until the sixth century, became one of the most important cities in Merovingian Gaul will be explained. The consolidation of the Merovingian royal power and the Christianization of the city were part of the same process.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Kevin C. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Personal Names ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
European Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
Northeastern Europe

This introductory chapter briefly summarizes the history of the city of Riga. It asserts that, even if it was never a seat of royal power like London, Paris, or Berlin, Riga's past and present have been influenced by the same political, economic, religious, and cultural forces that have shaped a diverse continent where matters of faith, authority, and hierarchy have intermingled with those of nationality, class, and sovereignty. It might reasonably be suggested that Riga is a microcosm of northeastern Europe; yet this eclectic city is in many respects sui generis. Riga may be familiar in its northeastern European context, yet the chapter argues that it is also unique. In addition, the remainder of the chapter addresses the portrayal of Riga by other historians (in other words, the city's historiography) as well as the rendering place and personal names in modern English.

L’exil des huguenots messins à l’époque moderne

Moreana ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (Number 171- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 123-145
Author(s):  
Julien Léonard
Keyword(s):  
Great Weight ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
The City ◽  
Edict Of Nantes

During the modern age, the city of Metz used to have an original status inside the French Kingdom for long, which gave to its strong calvinist minority a great weight and a freedom that the reformed people didn’t have anywhere else. Despite it, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes shattered on the city, making the Huguenots to choose between their faith hand their homeland. In spite of the incured dangers, many of them took the risk of exiling themselves. More than 70% of the protestants in Metz left their city between the end of the 1670’s and the end of the 1690’s, mostly choosing to find shelter in Berlin, where they met again the main pastor of their community. This specific story makes the case of Metz particularly interesting, for it allows to note that the relationships between the royal power and protestants minorities could have depended on others factors than the only political will to reduce the whole kingdom to catholicism. The difficulty of exile also emphasizes the strength of the religious feeling among French protestants in general, and protestants in Metz in particular.

Cittŕ e cerimoniale: lo spazio urbano e la corte vicereale di Napoli nel XVII secolo

STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 55-82
Author(s):  
Sŕnchez Carlos Josč Hernando
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Central Point ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

- City and ceremonial: urban space and the vice-royal court during the 17th century in Naples The article intends to refute the historiographical tradition that, starting from the so-called Masaniello revolt, maintains the dramatically negative effects of the Spanish presence in Naples. Actually, the Spanish government was characterised for an high level of attention and for a constant effort of communication with Neapolitan community, both on popular and aristocratic level, although without giving up the basis of the royal power. The process of mediation was carried out through a series of complex ceremonials, also aimed to shape the urban space. The vice-royal court was the central point of this process, from which spread all over the city the courtesan etiquette, based on the personal honour. The religious devotions, of course, played an important role in the ceremonials, as they were necessary to reinforce the process of political legitimation of the Spanish power. Some particular cults, linked to specific areas in the town, were adopted by the vice-royal entourage as a complementary way to emphasize the Spanish presence in town.

Space and Power in the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-208
Author(s):  
James F. Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The Political ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
The City

This chapter develops insights from recent social theory in space and place that emphasizes the socially contingent nature of the built environment and its perception by those who dwell within it. Spatial analysis of settlement patterns within the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex illustrates that rather than being evenly distributed across the landscape, as per the vision of territoriality in the modern nation-state, power at the regional scale was highly variable and swift to change, a phenomenon referred to as malleable territoriality. Each kingdom’s capital city was a tightly coordinated nexus of symbols that celebrated royal authority to pedestrians in such a way that no matter where one turned, as one moved through the city, the legitimacy of the royal figure was constantly being reinforced. Yet as soon as one moved into a settlement lower on the settlement hierarchy, one sees that the political is far less evident, even absent. And even in the capital cities themselves, those indicators of royal power are frequently found smashed into pieces. Spatial analysis therefore indicates that not only was power expressed and experienced differently depending on one’s location in the built environment, it was also something that could be contested.

scholarly journals From Ashur to Nineveh: The Assyrian town-planning programme

Iraq ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Novák
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Bipolar Structure ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Dry Farming ◽  
The City

During the last century of Assyria's existence the urban landscape was characterised by a bipolar structure. The old capital Ashur was still the religious, ceremonial and cultural centre, while Nineveh was the seat of royal power (Maul 1997). Both cities were not only the oldest urban entities of the Assyrian heartland, flourishing at least from the third or even fourth millennium BC onwards; they both also represented two different regions within Assyria with very specific geomorphologic environments and distinctive socio-ecological conditions. While the Ashur region is situated at the southernmost edge of the dry farming belt, the Nineveh area is one of the most fertile regions in northern Mesopotamia (Fig. 1).The political fates of the two cities were unconnected for a long time. Ashur became an important trading centre and an independent kingdom at the beginning of the second millennium, whereas for a long time Nineveh stood in the shadow of more powerful neighbours. But in the seventh century it was Nineveh that became the capital of Assyria and the outstanding urban structure of the whole Near East. The refounding and enlargement of the city by Sennacherib was by far the most ambitious town-building programme ever realised in Assyria. Furthermore, it marked the end of a long process of moving the political centre of the country from the Ashur region northwards to the Nineveh region, which coincided with the rise of Assyria from a small kingdom to a world empire. During this development there were several (other) temporary capitals, all of them new foundations like Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, Kalhu and Dūr-Šarrukēn.

Tra devozione e politica. Le chiese e gli ospedali di Santiago e Montserat di Roma, secoli XVI-XVIII

STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 101-127
Author(s):  
Gozalo Maximiliano Bariio
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

- Between devotion and politics. The churches and hospitals of Santiago and Montserrat in Rome (16th-18th cent.) At the end of the Middle Ages the city of Rome saw the foundation of the hospitals and churches of Santiago of the Castilians, located on piazza Navona, and of Montserrat of the Aragonese Nation, settled on the homonymous street. Both of them were affluent institutions, developing an intense welfare and religious action in favour of their nationals. Little by little they became the tangible symbol of the Spanish presence in Rome, provoking the intervention of the Spanish royal power. The study takes advantage of a wide range of archival sources, reconstructing in detail income, expenses and the investments of the two institutions throughout the 16th to 18th centuries.

Sites of Power and Assembly in the Thames Valley in the Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 114-131
Author(s):  
Alex Sanmark ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article examines three sites of elite and royal power in the early second millennium AD in the Thames valley: Kingston upon Thames in Greater London, Westminster in the City of London, and Runnymede in Surrey. Using a backdrop of comparative material from medieval Scandinavia, these sites are examined in terms of their landscape qualities, particularly their liminal nature. On this basis, it is shown that they demonstrate attributes and features that are frequently connected to assembly sites. It is therefore argued that these sites may well, earlier in time, have been assembly locations that were consciously adopted and developed as royal ritual sites as part of the legitimising process of power.

scholarly journals Transformation of Catuspatha in Bali Indonesia: Alteration Ideas from Empty Space to Aesthetic Element of City

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra ◽  
◽  
Frysa Wiriantari ◽  
Desak Made Sukma Widiyani ◽  
Anak Agung Ayu Sri Ratih Yulianasari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empty Space ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Catuspatha in Bali is interpreted not merely as a junction or crossroad but a crossroads that have their own sacred values ??and meanings and are equated with the great crossroads. At the time of the kingdom in Bali catuspatha was the center of the royal capital and meant the center of the country. Meanwhile, since the Dutch occupation in Bali, there has been a tendency to place aesthetic elements as the focal points or landmarks of a city at the center of a catuspatha and this trend was continued by the republican government during independence. The purpose of this study is to uncover the concept of catuspatha, the transformation of concepts, changes in the expression of catuspatha from the kingdom to independence and the impact of the changes. To achieve this goal, an observation was carried out on nine catuspathas of royal heritage in the Bali region with document research and reconstruction through interviews with priests of Shiva, Buddhism, Bachelors, and other elements as well as textual observations in the form of literature, research results, and ancient chronicles. The results obtained from this study indicate a change in the idea where the view of the center of the catuspatha as an empty space turned into an aesthetic element of the city that acts as a traffic sign and also as a city orientation. In the political context, there is an impact on the integrity of traditional values ??in the catuspatha where the symbols of royal power were expressed in the castle’s structure. The central facilities of the kingdom, are transformed into a mayor’s office with subordinate units. In the context of transportation technology, traffic lights are also expressed to regulate the flow of traffic on the catuspatha.

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