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Cosponsored by the History Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop
The lecture will focus on the extraordinary millennial career of the sacral kingship down through the ages and across the globe as the most common form of government known to humankind. It will trace its survival down into the early modern era and highlight the unexpected turn whereby it drew the papacy itself into its ideological orbit and helped transform the popes into the last of the great sacral monarchs.
You can read more about Prof. Oakley’s book on Kingship HERE.