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Ottonian Germany
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Author : Thietmar
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-06
Ottonian Germany written by Thietmar and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Thietmar's testimony also has special value because of his geographical location, in eastern Saxony, on the boundary between German and Slavic cultures. He is arguably the single most important witness to the early history of Poland, and his detailed descriptions of Slavic folklore are the earliest on record. This is a very important source in the medieval period, translated here in its entirety for the first time. It relates to an area of medieval studies generally dominated by German scholars, in which Anglo-phone scholars are beginning to make a substantial contribution.
Imperial Ladies Of The Ottonian Dynasty
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Author : Phyllis G. Jestice
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Imperial Ladies Of The Ottonian Dynasty written by Phyllis G. Jestice and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with History categories.
In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries. Theophanu and Adelheid were two of the most influential figures in the Ottonian reich along with their husbands, who relied heavily on their support. Phyllis G. Jestice examines an array of factors that produced their power and prestige, including societal attitudes toward women, their wealth, their unction as queens, and their carefully constructed image of piety. Due to their influential positions, Theophanu and Adelheid reclaimed control of the young Otto III despite fierce opposition from Henry the Quarrelsome during the throne struggle of 984. In examining how they successfully secured the regency, this book confronts the outmoded notion of exceptionalism and illuminates the lives of powerful Ottonian women.
Church And Cosmos In Early Ottonian Germany
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Author : Henry Mayr-Harting
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-10-04
Church And Cosmos In Early Ottonian Germany written by Henry Mayr-Harting and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-04 with History categories.
Integrating the brilliant biography of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (953-65) and brother of Emperor Otto I, by the otherwise obscure monk Ruotger, with the intellectual culture of Cologne Cathedral, this is a study of actual politics in conjunction with Ottonian ruler ethic. Our knowledge of Cologne intellectual activity in the period, apart from Ruotger, must be pieced together mainly from marginal annotations and glosses in surviving Cologne manuscripts, showing how and with what concerns some of the most important books of the Latin West were read in Bruno's and Ruotger's Cologne. These include Pope Gregory the Great's Letters, Prudentius's Psychomachia, Boethius's Arithmetic, and Martianus Capella's Marriage of Philology and Mercury. The writing in the margins of the manuscripts, besides enlarging our picture of thinking in Cologne in itself, can be drawn into comparison with the outlook of Ruotger. Exploring how distinctive Cologne was, compared with other centres, Henry Mayr-Harting brings out an unexpectedly strong thread of Platonism in the tenth-century intellect. The book includes a critical edition of probably the earliest surviving, and hitherto unpublished, set of glosses to Boethius's Arithmetic, with an extensive study of their content.
Kingship And Justice In The Ottonian Empire
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Author : Laura Wangerin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Kingship And Justice In The Ottonian Empire written by Laura Wangerin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
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Construction Of Ottonian Kingship
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Author : Antoni Grabowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Construction Of Ottonian Kingship written by Antoni Grabowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with HISTORY categories.
German historians long assumed that the German Kingdom was created with Henry the Fowler's coronation in 919. The reigns of both Henry the Fowler, and his son Otto the Great, were studied and researched mainly through Widukind of Corvey's chronicle Res Gestae Saxonicae. There was one source on Ottonian times that was curiously absent from most of the serious research: Liudprand of Cremona's Antapodosis. The study of this chronicle leads to a reappraisal of the tenth century in Western Europe showing how mythology of the dynasty was constructed. By looking at the later reception (through later Middle Ages and then on 19th and 20th century historiography) the author showcases the longevity of Ottonian myths and the ideological expressions of the tenth century storytellers.
Church And Cosmos In Early Ottonian Germany
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Author : Henry Mayr-Harting
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-04
Church And Cosmos In Early Ottonian Germany written by Henry Mayr-Harting and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-04 with History categories.
When the writing in the margins is compared with the outlook of Ruotger, these margins begin to seem drawn into the centre of Cologne thinking." "Henry Mayr-Harting shows up the strand of Platonism in tenth-century intellectual history, a history still too little known. He asks how distinctive Cologne was, compared with other intellectual centres. The book also contains a critical edition of probably the earliest surviving set of glosses, hitherto unpublished, to Boethius's Arithmetic, with an extensive study of their contents."--BOOK JACKET.
Rule And Conflict In An Early Medieval Society
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Author : Karl Leyser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Rule And Conflict In An Early Medieval Society written by Karl Leyser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Ottonian Queenship
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Author : Simon MacLean
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Ottonian Queenship written by Simon MacLean and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with History categories.
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European Carolingian Empire after it disintegrated in 888, ruling as kings and emperors in Germany and Italy and exerting indirect hegemony in France and in Eastern Europe. It has long been noted by historians that Ottonian queens were peculiarly powerful - indeed, among the most powerful of the entire Middle Ages. Their reputations, particularly those of the empresses Theophanu (d.991) and Adelheid (d.999) have been commemorated for a thousand years in art, literature, and opera. But while the exceptional status of the Ottonian queens is well appreciated, it has not been fully explained. Ottonian Queenship offers an original interpretation of Ottonian queenship through a study of the sources for the dynasty's six queens, and seeks to explain it as a phenomenon with a beginning, middle, and end. The argument is that Ottonian queenship has to be understood as a feature in a broader historical landscape, and that its history is intimately connected with the unfolding story of the royal dynasty as a whole. Simon MacLean therefore interprets the spectacular status of Ottonian royal women not as a matter of extraordinary individual personalities, but as a distinctive product of the post-Carolingian era in which the certainties of the ninth century were breaking down amidst overlapping struggles for elite family power, royal legitimacy, and territory. Queenship provides a thread which takes us through the complicated story of a crucial century in Europe's creation, and helps explain how new ideas of order were constructed from the debris of the past.
Ottonian Germany
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Author : Thietmar (von Merseburg, Bishop of Merseburg)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Ottonian Germany written by Thietmar (von Merseburg, Bishop of Merseburg) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Germany categories.
The Foundations Of Royal Power In Early Medieval Germany
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Author : David S. Bachrach
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022-08-16
The Foundations Of Royal Power In Early Medieval Germany written by David S. Bachrach and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Authority categories.
Provocative interrogation of how the Ottonian kingdom grew and flourished, focussing on the resources required.