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Rules and rituals in medieval power games : a German perspective /

"Gerd Althoff's new book collects fifteen of his more recent contributions, most of them previously published in German, which elucidate the functioning of prestate societies. Examples from the Frankish and later German realm (800-1200) are used to clarify how rules and political rituals g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Althoff, Gerd (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
Colección:Medieval law and its practice, vol. 29
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Gerd Althoff's new book collects fifteen of his more recent contributions, most of them previously published in German, which elucidate the functioning of prestate societies. Examples from the Frankish and later German realm (800-1200) are used to clarify how rules and political rituals governed behavior in the power games between kings, churchmen and nobles. Such rules (Spielregeln) and rituals guided public and private behavior despite the fact that they existed only as unwritten customs. The long-overlooked significance of this way of establishing order has sparked a vivid and controversial international discussion in the last decades which continues today"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004415319
9789004415317
ISSN:1873-8176 ;