Sentence examples for kingship from from inspiring English sources

Division came even faster, since the passing of a high kingship from father to son was always precarious.

In the Maya realm, for example, palace complexes and elaborate inscriptions detailing the accession of kings and queens testify to the importance of kingship from around AD300 onwards.

He was also king of the gods, and, to achieve that position, he was portrayed as seizing the divine kingship from Yamm, the sea god.

By contrast, Charles I never fully recovered his kingship from defeats on the fields of Marston Moor and Naseby in the English civil war in the following century.

The production reaches a lively zenith during the celebrated comic scene in which Richard purports to demur at being crowned, begging the mayor and the citizenry to lift the awful burden of kingship from him.

That had an interesting offshoot as monarchical feudalism lost sway: loyal subjects who were torn by the venality of sitting sovereigns found it necessary as part of their effort to avoid charges of treason to distinguish their ongoing loyalty to the institution of kingship from their loyalty to a particular king.

According to Frazer, the institution of divine kingship derived from the belief that the well-being of the social and natural orders depended upon the vitality of the king, who must therefore be slain when his powers begin to fail him and be replaced by a vigorous successor.

The institution of kingship comes not from divine revelation but from the request of the elders of Israel, and this request is treated by Samuel as rebellion against Yahweh.

From kingship, that is, Shakespeare turned to the king, the symbolic individual, the focal man, to whom whole societies look for their values and meanings.

Throughout his inscriptions, Darius not only speaks of the source of the authority of the kingship as deriving from Ahura Mazdā but also makes it clear that his own establishment of political stability over the chaos of rebellion and his maintenance of order through law imitates the divine model set by the Creator.

Even so, what is certain is that it was only after Guðrøðr's death that Óláfr's kingship was safe from any rival claim.