Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 483 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
052182074X
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9780521820745
Content:
Timothy Reuter was a perceptive and original thinker, a medievalist with extraordinary range. This collection of his essays addresses three themes: historiography and the development of the modern study of the medieval past; the importance of symbolic action and communication; and the need to avoid anachronism in considering medieval politics
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Editor's note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Editor's introduction; CHAPTER 1 Modern mentalities and medieval polities; CHAPTER 2 Medieval: another tyrannous construct?; CHAPTER 3 The insecurity of travel in the early and high Middle Ages: criminals, victims and their medieval and modern observers; CHAPTER 4 Debating the 'feudal revolution'; CHAPTER 5 Pre-Gregorian mentalities; CHAPTER 6 Whose race, whose ethnicity? Recent medievalists' discussions of identity; CHAPTER 7 Nobles and others: the social and cultural expression of power relations in the Middle Ages
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CHAPTER 8 Regemque, quem in Francia pene perdidit, in patria magnifice recepitCHAPTER 9 Contextualising Canossa: excommunication, penance, surrender, reconciliation; CHAPTER 10 Velle sibi fieri in forma hac; CHAPTER 11 Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth; CHAPTER 12 Sex, lies and oath-helpers: the trial of Queen Uota; CHAPTER 13 Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire; CHAPTER 14 The end of Carolingian military expansion; CHAPTER 15 The Ottonians and Carolingian tradition
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CHAPTER 16 The making of England and Germany, 850-1050: points of comparison and differenceCHAPTER 17 King, nobles, others: 'base' and 'superstructure' in the Ottonian period; CHAPTER 18 The 'imperial church system' of the Ottonian and Salian rulers: a reconsideration; CHAPTER 19 Peace-breaking, feud, rebellion, resistance: violence and peace in the politics of the Salian era; CHAPTER 20 The medieval German Sonderweg? The empire and its rulers in the high Middle Ages; CHAPTER 21 Mandate, privilege, court judgement: techniques of rulership in the age of Frederick Barbarossa
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CHAPTER 22 All quiet except on the Western Front? The emergence of pre-modern forms of statehood in the central Middle AgesIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521820745
Additional Edition:
Print version Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities
Language:
English
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