'Advocate of God'



The main research of the University of Passau medievalist Franz-Reiner Erkens focuses on sacred kingship in the Latin middle ages. The volume contains 16 essays discussing the popular faith on the salvific presence of the monarch and its close affinity to god from a historical and anthropological approach. Stressing on the key role of the Carolingian Empire as a receptor and mediator of antique and biblical ideas of kingship the author traces the path from the middle ages to the present.