Empires and Gods

Empires and GodsInteraction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empires cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and

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and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid- and late- 20th-century American letters

This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are

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much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems