Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda : medieval female rulership and the foundations of European society
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on names -- Chronology. Empress Adelheid -- Countess Matilda -- Contents -- List of Maps -- chapter 1. Introduction : masterful and formidable ladies -- Lives of two Women -- Notes -- chapter 2. Kin and kith : keeping friends and placating enemies -- Who were �...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Queenship and power
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| Schlagworte: | Queens Adelheid Matilde Kaiserin |
| Umfang: | xxxi, 292 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on names -- Chronology. Empress Adelheid -- Countess Matilda -- Contents -- List of Maps -- chapter 1. Introduction : masterful and formidable ladies -- Lives of two Women -- Notes -- chapter 2. Kin and kith : keeping friends and placating enemies -- Who were 'kin' in the Middle Ages? -- Who were 'kith' in the Middle Ages? -- Adelheid and her kin -- The importance of lineage -- Blood relations and mutual obligations -- Friends and followers -- Henry I of Bavaria, brother of Otto I -- Gerbert of Aurillac -- Willigis of Mainz -- Spiritual family -- The family connections of Adelheid and Matilda -- Matilda's kin -- Growing Up -- 1. Mantua, 19 January 1072 : the beginning of rule -- 2. Going to Canossa, January 1077 : a crucial negotiator -- 3. Quistello, 9 January 1106 : mature lordship -- Family matters -- A philosophical salon -- Spiritual family -- Pope Gregory VII -- Anselm of Canterbury -- Anselm of Lucca -- Donizo, a monk from Sant'Apollonio -- Pope Paschal II, the Cathedral of Modena and the bones of St Geminianus -- Hugh of Cluny and Hugh of Lyons -- Notes -- chapter 3. Land : building and maintaining a property portfolio -- Wives, widows and land -- Empress Adelheid -- Erstein, Burgundy and Selz -- Countess Matilda of Tuscany -- Matilda and the rise of comital power -- The history of three landholdings -- The case of Melara -- The case of Hochfelden -- The case of Canossa -- The significance of law -- Notes -- chapter 4. Rule : models of rulership and the tools of justice -- Early medieval Ottonian kingship -- Early medieval queenship -- A model for queenship -- Adelheid's queenship -- Countess Matilda as victor -- Ruling in Italy -- A strong center -- Holding the roads -- The tools of justice : comital courts and their records -- The centers of justice -- Violence and reconciliation -- Developing the military apparatus -- Choosing negotiation or warfare -- Domina Matilda comitissa atque ducatrix -- On bended knee -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on sources and translations -- Bibliography -- Manuscript sources -- Primary and early sources -- Secondary sources -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-270 |
| Beschreibung: | xxxi, 292 Seiten Illustration, Karten, genealogische Tafeln |
| ISBN: | 9781137590886 1137590882 9781137585141 1137585145 |