In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned...
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne ...
The increased interest in religion as a phenomenon and its various cultural contexts is encouraging a focus on the relationship between religion and politics. However, the political relevance of the religious and the interdependence between political and religious spheres has always been a major area of medieval research. The articles in this volume consider not only the principle inseparability of both spheres as previously established by research, but also the beginnings of a differentiation and relative autonomy of religion and politics within the framework of a comparison between Germany...
The increased interest in religion as a phenomenon and its various cultural contexts is encouraging a focus on the relationship between religion and p...
Unter den Bedingungen aktueller methodischer und quellenkritischer Diskussion lassen sich auch die historiographischen Zeugnisse der ottonisch-fruhsalischen Epoche nicht im unmittelbaren Zugriff auf herrschaftstheologischen Gehalt und -Herrscheridee- auswerten. Zu fragen ist vielmehr, welcher Stellenwert den einzelnen Zeugnissen im sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Horizont der Zeit zukommt, unter welchen Bedingungen sie entstanden und von wem sie rezipiert worden sind. Die Frage nach dem jeweiligen Kontext von Herrscherbildern und Historiographie soll also erhellen, in welchen...
Unter den Bedingungen aktueller methodischer und quellenkritischer Diskussion lassen sich auch die historiographischen Zeugnisse der ottonisch-fruh...
