Sentence examples for imperial idea from inspiring English sources

Despite the importance of the imperial idea at this time, peninsular fractionalist tendencies were by no means dormant.

His project is, by necessity, a different enterprise, for the imperial idea was destined to shift and change with time.

Though his reign saw the apogee of the imperial idea in medieval Spain and though he won notable victories against the Moors, he remains a somewhat hazy figure.

The words that came to his mind when asked about American motives were dark: "hegemony," the "imperial idea" and "guardian of the world," he said.

As the century drew to a close, the imperial idea surely offered some comfort when Abū ʿĀmir al-Manṣūr (Almanzor), who exercised dictatorial authority in the caliph's name, regularly ravaged all the Christian states.

The son of a Greek princess, imbued with Byzantine traditions, Otto III drew on Roman, Carolingian, and Christian strands to form a new synthesis combining the heterogeneous elements in the imperial idea.

It's structured on monarchical and imperial ideas of politics.

While in Italy the empire was in process of dissolution, north of the Alps imperial ideas persisted, but not in the form associated with the papacy.

This requires looking at the Augustan interventions into the traditional temple complexes of Egypt, the transmission of imperial ideas about pharaonic Egypt to Rome, their uses there, and the role of pharaonic appropriations within a broader landscape of Aegyptiaca in Rome.

Western Christianity was infected with imperial ideas, inflicted by the point of a sword, beginning in the ninth to 11th centuries.

A soldier wrote home calling Davies, who stood five feet six inches tall, "a grand little chap", whilst another noted with pleasure that Davies objected to "Imperial ideas of discipline" being forced upon his men.