Every Inch a King

Charles Melville, Ph.D. (1978) in Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Persian History at Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Shahnama Project. He has published extensively on the history and historiography of Mongol and Safavid Persia, including recently Epic of the Persian Kings: the art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, with Barbara Brend (London, 2010).Lynette Mitchell, Ph.D. (1994) in Greek History at the University of Durham, is Associate Professor in Greek History and Politics at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek history political thought in the archaic and classical periods, and is currently completing a monograph on kingship in archaic and classical Greece.

• Acknowledgments Note on ContributorsList of Illustrations“Every Inch a King”. Kings and Kingship from Antiquity to the Medieval World, Lynette Mitchell and Charles MelvilleDefining the Divine in Achaemenid Persian Kingship: The View from Bisitun, Margaret Cool RootXenophon’s Cyropaedia: Fictive History, Political Analysis and Thinking with Iranian Kings, Christopher TuplinAlexander the Great: Divinity and the Rule of Law, Lynette MitchellSeleucus I, Zeus and Alexander, Kyle EricksonMachiavelli and Xenophon’s Cyrus: Searching for the Modern Conceptions of Monarchy, Waller NewellRuling ‘Virtually’? Royal Images in Medieval English Law Books, Anthony MussonThe Anomalous King of Conquered England, Laura AsheTelling Tales of Adulterous Queens in Medieval England: From Olympias of Macedonia to Elizabeth Woodville, Joanna LaynesmithRoyalty Reflected in the Chronicles of Froissart, Peter AinsworthBreaking and Making Tradition: Æthelstan, ‘Abd-ar-Rahman III, and their Panegyrists, Shane BobryckiThe King as Subject, Master and Model of Authority: The Case of Alfonso X of Castile, Antonella Liuzzo ScorpoGod and Caesar: The Dynamics of Visigothic Monarchy, Andrew Fear‘On the Road Again’: Kings, Roads, and Accommodation in High Medieval Germany, John BernhardtRuling from the Outside: A New Perspective on Early Turkish Kingship in Iran, David Durand-GuédyThe Royal Image in Mongol Iran, Charles MelvilleArchitecture and the Representations of Kingship During the Reign of the Safavid Shah ‘Abbas I, Kishwar RizviIndex