Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, - C.936 107

Klappentext Shows how monasteries provided crucial economic and political support to itinerant monarchs in medieval Germany. Zusammenfassung This book assimilates a great deal of European scholarship on the realities and structures of power. It examines an important aspect of early medieval government! itinerant kingship! and shows how monasteries and convents in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany lent it crucial economic and political support. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. German kingship and royal monasteries: the historical and historiographical context; 2. Itinerant kingship, royal monasteries and the servitium regis; 3. Servitium regis and monastic property; 4. Monasteries in the Saxon heartland; 5. Monasteries in Westphalia; 6. Monasteries in the Saxon-Hessian border; 7. Monasteries in Hesse and Thuringia; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John W. Bernhardt, John W. (San Jose State University Bernhardt, John William Bernhardt, Bernhardt John W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.1993
• EAN: 9780521394895
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39489-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Topics in Mineral Ph; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE