THE POWER OF PLACE RULERS AND THEIR PALACES, LANDSCAPES, CITIES, AND HOLY PLACES

The Power of Place explores the nature of powerthe power of kings, emperors, and popesthrough the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across all of Euro pe from the first to the sixteenth centuriesfrom Prague and Seville to Palermo and the Oslo FjordDavid Rollason examines how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages were.