Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross The top portion of the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross, featuring the Cullinan I diamond; the sceptre is part of the British monarchy's coronation regalia.

The Crown Jewels include two sceptres made for Mary of Modena in 1685: a gold sceptre with a cross known as the Queen Consort's Sceptre with Cross, and another made of ivory topped by …

Relief carving of Darius the Great of Persia on his throne, holding a sceptre and lotus. A sceptre (or scepter in American English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an …

The globus cruciger (Latin for 'cross-bearing orb'), also known as stavroforos sphaira (Greek: σταυροφόρος σφαίρα) [1] or "the orb and cross", is an orb surmounted by a cross. It has been …

Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia's leading medieval historian.

For several generations the kingship was contested by two dynasties that traced their descent from the twelfth-century kings Sverker and Erik. Bagge’s claim (p. 56) that the Sverker dynasty …

Aug 21, 2015 · Three long chapters deal with the origins of the kingdoms in the Viking Age, their consolidation between the conversion to Christianity and the Black Death, and their reshuffling …

Jan 1, 2014 · Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia's leading medieval historian. Sverre …