Timothy Reuter

Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities

Herausgeber: Nelson, Janet L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of influential and challenging essays by Timothy Reuter, a British medievalist of extraordinary range.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780521168632
• ISBN-10: 0521168635
• Artikelnr.: 29923465

Autorenporträt

Formerly Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton.
Professor of Medieval History at Kings College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's note; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Editor's
introduction; Part I. Modern Mentalities: Historiographies, Methodologies,
Preconceptions: 1. Modern mentalities and medieval polities; 2. Medieval:
another tyrannous construct?; 3. The insecurity of travel in the early and
high Middle Ages: criminals, victims and their medieval and modern
observers; 4. Debating the 'feudal revolution'; 5. Pre-Gregorian
mentalities; 6. Whose race, whose ethnicity? Recent medievalists'
discussion of identity; Part II. The Symbolic Language of Medieval
Political Action: 7. Nobles and others: the social and cultural expression
of power relations in the Middle Ages; 8. Regemque, quem in Francia pene
perdidit, in patria magnifice recepit: Ottonian ruler representation in
synchronic and diachronic comparison; 9. Contextualising Canossa:
excommunication, penance, surrender, reconciliation; 10. Velle sibi fieri
in forma hac: symbolic action in the Becket dispute; Part III. Political
Structures and Intentions: 11. Assembly politics in western Europe from the
eighth century to the twelfth; 12. Sex, lies and oath-helpers: the trial of
Queen Uota; 13. Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire; 14. The end
of Carolingian military expansion; 15. The Ottonians and Carolingian
tradition; 16. The making of England and Germany, 850-1050: points of
comparison and difference; 17. Kings, nobles, others: 'basis' and
'superstructure' in the Ottonian period; 18. The 'imperial church system'
of the Ottonian and Salian rulers: a reconsideration; 19. Peace-breaking,
feud, rebellion, resistance: violence and peace in the politics of the
Salian era; 20. The medieval German Sonderweg? The empire and its rulers in
the high Middle Ages; 21. Mandate, privilege, court judgement: techniques
of rulership in the era of Frederick Barbarossa; 22. All quiet except on
the Western Front? The emergence of pre-modern forms of statehood in the
central Middle Ages; Index.