Timothy Reuter

Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of influential and challenging essays by British medievalist Timothy Reuter, a perceptive and original thinker with extraordinary range who was equally at home in the Anglophone or German scholarly worlds. The book addresses three interconnected themes in the study of the history of the early and high Middle Ages. Firstly, historiography, the development of the modern study of the medieval past. How do our contemporary and inherited preconceptions and pre-occupations determine our view of history? Secondly, the importance of symbolic action and communication in the politics and polities of the Middle Ages. Finally, the need to avoid anachronism in our consideration of medieval politics. Throwing light both on modern mentalities and on the values and conduct of medieval people themselves, and containing articles, at time of publication, never previously been available in English, this book is essential reading for any serious scholar of medieval Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511247590
• Artikelnr.: 38197658

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.