Title Instructions for Kings : Secular and Clerical Images of Kingship in Early Ireland and Ancient India

Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (581 pages) Series Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft ; v. 2 Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft. Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Kingship and polity; 1.1 Representations of ideal kingship; 1.2 Early medieval Irish polity; 1.3 Preliminaries on the purpose of research: Irish data; 1.4 Early Indian sources on polity and ideal kingship; 2 Philological analysis of similarities between the Irish and Indian polities; 2.1 Brahmanism and druidism; 2.2 Religious-cultural development of 3rd c. BC India and 5-8th cc. AD Ireland; I Overview of the Celtic scholarship on the subject of righteous kingship; 1 Fír flathemon in the corpus of gnomic texts 2 First editions of early Irish wisdom-texts3 Hiberno-Latin texts on ideal kingship; 3.1 De duodecim abusiuis; 3.2 Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; 4 Early Irish wisdom-literature: Traditionalist approach; 4.1 The Sagacity of the Irish and the Hindu; 4.2 The Archaism of Irish Tradition; 4.3 Roi fainéant and Audacht Moraind; 4.4 Ma-a-t, Rṭa-, Fír as 'ethic and cosmic truth'; 4.5 Royal consecration formula in tecosc-texts; 4.6 Fír flatha and the elemental sureties; 4.7 Latin loanwords and Audacht Morainn; 4.8 The native ideology of Irish kingship; 4.9 Marginalia to Audacht Morainn 4.10 Microcosmic and macrocosmic entities of the righteous ruler5 Alternative approaches to the study of fír; 5.1 The Irish royal honour code; 5.2 The concept of law in early Ireland; 5.3 The revisionist approach; 5.4 The religious ethical approach; 5.5 The cognitive approach; 5.6 Irish wisdom-texts: their origin, message and authorship; 5.7 Irish kingship and succession; 5.8 Law and memory; 6 The cult of the sacred centre; II De rege iniquo 'On the unjust king'; 1 'Concerning the twelve abuses' (De duodecim abusiuis): An overview; 2 Arguments in favour of the Irish origin of De duodecim 3 De rege iniquo section of De duodecim: Structure, text and translation3.1 De rege iniquo -- the earliest exposition on ideal kingship in Ireland; 3.2 The central principle of De rege iniquo; 3.3 Major divisions of De rege iniquo; 3.4 De rege iniquo: Introduction; 3.5 De rege iniquo: Part 1; 3.6 De rege iniquo: Part 2; 3.7 De rege iniquo: Part 3; 3.8 De rege iniquo: Conclusion; 3.9 De rege iniquo: Literary style; 3.10 Collectio Canonum Hibernensis on good and bad kings; 4 De rege iniquo, introduction: Discussion; 4.1 Connotations of Lat. iniquus 4.2 Etymological association rex/(cor)rectus/(cor)rector4.3 Discussion of quoniam in iustitia regis exaltatur solium; 5 De rege iniquo, first part: Discussion; 5.1 Neminem iniuste per potentiam opprimere ('To destroy nobody unjustly by might'); 5.2 Sine acceptione personarum inter virum et proximum suum iudicare; 5.3 Advenis et pupillis et viduis defensorem esse; 5.4 Furta cohibere, adulteria punire; 5.5 Iniquos non exaltare. Iustos super regni negotia constituere; 5.6 Impudicos et striones non nutrire; 5.7 Impios de terra perdere; 5.8 Parricidas et periurantes vivere non sinere Summary Early Irish and Indian sources afford analogous depictions of the ideal ruler and of ideal governance, based not only on the cosmos, social order and justice, topics universally connected with kingship, but also on moral themes. On the basis of extensive textual evidence, these visions of regal power are taken as idealised, rather than historical, constructs. The sources, newly edited and translated, include Hiberno-Latin and vernacular Irish wisdom-texts, as well as canonical Buddhist sutras in Pali, which are discussed in the light of early Indian political theory and the royal inscriptions Notes 5.9 Pauperes elemosynis alere Print version record Subject Monarchy -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800 Divine right of kings -- Early works to 1800 Monarchy -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Ireland -- Early works to 1800 Monarchy -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India -- Early works to 1800 Kings and rulers Divine right of kings Kings and rulers -- Sources Monarchy -- Moral and ethical aspects SUBJECT Ireland -- Kings and rulers -- History -- Sources India -- Kings and rulers -- History -- Sources Subject India Ireland Genre/Form Sources Early works History Form Electronic book ISBN 3825374114 9783825374112

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