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Power in history : from medieval Ireland to the post-modern world

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Part one: Power in the texts. 1. The limits of power in Medieval Europe / Janet L. Nelson
2. From the rituals of politics to the ideal city: Leonardo da Vinci's visual expressions of power / Marco Versiero
3. Power after Machiavelli : Richard Bellings, Reason of state and Jansenism in seventeenth-century Ireland / Ian W.S. Campbell
4. The Gookin-Lawrence pamphlet debate and transplantation in Cromwellian Ireland / John Cunningham. Part two: Institutionalizing power. 5. The paper monument: University histories and the fashioning of institutional prestige in early modern Germany / Richard Kirwin
6. Serving the King at home and abroad: the Tangier Garrison under Charles II, 1662-1684 / Alistair Malcolm
7. A British empire court: a brief appraisal of the history of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council / Thomas Mohr. Part three: Gendered power. 8. Lifting the tapestry: the designs of Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) / Zita Rohr
9. Perfecting the degraded body: slavery, Irish-immigration, and American gynaecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens
10. Family and power: incest in Ireland, 1880-1950 / Sarah-Anne Buckley. Part four: Power is personal. 11. Ministériat, ministers and monarchy in seventeenth-century France / Joseph Bergin
12. The iconography of power: Stalin and his images / Judith Devlin
13. The moral bases of power in South African political leadership: the accession of Jacob Zuma / Tom Lodge. Part five: power of myths and rituals. 14. The alterity of power and vice versa, with reflections on stranger-kings and the real-politics of the marvellous / Marshall Sahlins.

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