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Die liturgische Gegenwart des abwesenden Königs
It has for decades been part of the canon of maxims of basic research that most images of rulers in early medieval book illustrations have been transmitted in liturgical manuscripts, i.e. manuscripts originally intended for divine worship. There have however to date been few investigations which draw serious consequences from this and which also view miniatures of rulers in the light of their functional aspects, for example as ‘memorial depictions’ (O.G. Oexle), or on the basis of the social reality of the pious motives behind their presentation. This study gives a more precise explanation of the function and purpose of ruler-images by examining a few selected early medieval miniatures. It analyzes the historical and social contexts of their genesis and the liturgical and commemorative aims of their use against the setting of the social form of remembrance of confraternity.
The Investiture Controversy
"This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be divorced from reality, especially not in the Middle Ages. I present them, therefore, in their contemporary political, social, and cultural context."—from the Preface
Religion and Politics in the Middle Ages
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 and the United Kingdom. This allows the identification of restrictions within the research traditions that are due to national histories and points to ways of overcoming these restrictions.
Medieval Purity and Piety
These new essays examine one of the major developments of the central Middle Ages: the emergence of a celibate clergy. Drawing on the work of historians and scholars of literature and religious studies, this essay collection traces the developing concern in the church militant with matters of purity and religious reform.
Struggle for Empire
Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe through the reign of Charlemagne's grandson, Louis the German (826 876)."
Papal Overlordship and European Princes, 1000-1270
This study reinterprets the relationship between the medieval papacy and independent states, suggesting that kings and governments were able to increase their effective power through close relationships with the international papacy, making the papacy integral to the creation of centralized national states and kingdoms in Europe.
Orbis Romanus
How did the medieval Frankish world relate to the orbis Romanus? Although this term is only sporadically attested in the early medieval evidence, Laury Sarti makes use of it to designate the sum of what may have been understood, from a western medieval perspective, as characteristic of or belonging to the Roman world. She argues that, although the Roman empire mainly persisted in the east beyond the fifth century, the orbis Romanus was not limited to Byzantium. The medieval west had emerged from that same Roman imperial tradition, and it retained some notable Roman characteristics and features even after it ceased to belong to the empire. In this book, Sarti challenges the caesura between a ...
Charlemagne's Practice of Empire
A new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.
In the Manner of the Franks
Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world. While hunting was central to elite lifestyles throughout these centuries, the Carolingians significantly altered this aristocratic activity in the later eighth and ninth centuries by making it a key symbol of Frankish kingship and political identity. This new connection emerged under Charlemagne, reached its high point under his son and heir Louis the Pious, and continued unde...
Kommunikation - Jurisdiktion - Integration
Das Mittelalter wird in der Forschung als eine von grundlegenden Wandlungs- und Integrationsprozessen gekennzeichnete Epoche betrachtet. Dabei fungierte das Papsttum seit der "papstgeschichtlichen Wende" als zentraler Motor für Integrationsprozesse. Die Abhandlung arbeitet als Fallstudie solche Prozesse an der geographischen Peripherie des heutigen Europas heraus. Analysiert werden die wechselhaften Beziehungen der Päpste zum Erzbistum Toledo, dem im Selbstverständnis der dortigen Prälaten kirchlichen Zentrum der Iberischen Halbinsel unmittelbar an der umkämpften Grenze zum muslimisch beherrschten Süden. In den Blick genommen werden ausgewählte Konflikte, die im Zeitraum von rund hundert Jahren seit der Eroberung der Stadt durch christliche Truppen 1085 unter päpstlicher Beteiligung ausgetragen wurden. Indem das Papsttum hier mehr und mehr als Legitimation spendende und Recht sprechende Instanz angerufen wurde, erlangte es immer mehr Autorität.
