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  • A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at K'anwitznal (Ucanal) and the making of a new era of political rule

  • Christina T. Halperin, Marta Lidia Perea Carrera, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, Jean-Baptiste LeMoine
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 98 / Issue 399 / June 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 April 2024, pp. 758-776
    Print publication:
    June 2024
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  • Key tipping points of history are rarely found directly in the archaeological record, not least because an event's significance often lies in the perception of the participants. This article documents an early-ninth-century ritual fire-burning event at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala and argues that it marked a public dismantling of an old regime. Rather than examine this event as part of a Classic period Maya collapse, the authors propose that it was a revolutionary pivot point around which the K'anwitznal polity reinvented itself, ushering in wider political transitions in the southern Maya Lowlands.

  • 6 - Designating an Heir

  • from Part III - Succession
  • Björn Weiler, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  • Book:
    Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200
    Published online:
    24 September 2021
    Print publication:
    14 October 2021, pp 165-226

  • Summary

    Kings could propose an heir, but they could not guarantee his (or, more rarely, her) succession. They could, however, prepare heirs for the moment when they would have to convince the people at large that they deserved to inherit the throne. Chapter 6 follows the several stages in which heirs demonstrated their suitability for the throne, and the means they had at their disposal to ensure that they had the backing they needed. It does so by tracing the ideal type of royal heir from designation (often in childhood) to a ruler’s death. Topics discussed include the political and literary education of princes, the entry into adulthood as signified by knighting and marriage, and taking charge of the funeral proceedings for a recently deceased king. Each demonstrated adherence to abstract norms of royal lordship – that is, moral suitability. Each also served more pragmatic ends. They allowed an heir to gain experience, allies and resources with which to pursue a claim to the throne. As in the creation of kingship, suitability and might went hand in hand with right.