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Over the course of the early Middle Ages, Christianity changed politics and politics changed Christianity. Christianity emerged in the pagan Roman Empire and early Christians, consequently, developed a 'secular' understanding of politics, where the religious identity of their ruler was irrelevant; by the time the synthesis of early medieval Christianity was achieved in the ninth-century Carolingian Empire, however, a new model of 'Christian kingship' had emerged, linking the legitimacy of a ruler to the quality of their Christianity. Conor O'Brien traces the slow, complex, and only ever partial way in which the concept of 'Christian kingship' arose in the Latin West over the five centuries up to 840. Taking a comparative approach that is sensitive to regional variation and the interconnected nature of the post-imperial Latin West, the book presents a novel overview of the transformations of both religion and politics in the early Middle Ages. Drawing on recent anthropology and global history approaches to sacred kingship, it takes seriously both continuity and change over time to show how the relationship between early medieval Christianity and kingship was, above all, driven by people's search for good government. Christian kingship arose in societies where it proved a useful mechanism for addressing the relationship between the ruler and the ruled. In doing so, The Rise of Christian Kingship in the Early Medieval West provides not just a rich reconstruction, grounded in the primary evidence, of changes in political thought and practice in the early Middle Ages, but also contributes to wider historical discussions about secularity, sacred kingship and the relationship between politics and religion.
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496 pages
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2026-01-06
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OUP Oxford
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9780192606952
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9780192606952
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Conor O'Brien was educated at Cork and Oxford, where he undertook research on the image of the Jewish Temple in the writings of Bede. His thesis subsequently formed the basis for an award-winning monograph, Bede's Temple (OUP, 2015). He has held research fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge and Durham, taught at Sheffield and King's College, London, and been Fellow in History at The Queen's College, Oxford since 2020. His research focuses on the religious history of the early Middle Ages and on Britain and Ireland before the Vikings.

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