In the Shadows of the Gods
Monday, 27 September 2021, 6pm-7.30pm, room TBC
Join us for the first student event of the Michaelmas Term!
Emeritus Professor Dominic Lieven will give a lecture based on his forthcoming book, In the Shadow of the Gods. The Emperor in World History. The book is about a job (ruling an empire) and - above all - about the people who did that job from the earliest empires of the third millennium BCE until the twentieth century and across the globe. It is in part a collective biography, in part a study in rulership, and in part an anatomy of hereditary imperial monarchy as a political system. It looks at supreme power in differing dynastic, political, religious and cultural contexts. At the core of the book – and therefore of the lecture – is the question about structure and human agency in history.