In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World , Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might.
Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the.
Right thus replaces might as the engine of empire.
But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action.
In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World , Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might