Construction of Ottonian kingship : narratives and myth in tenth-century Germany /

German historians long assumed that the German Kingdom was created with Henry the Fowler's coronation in 919. The reigns of both Henry the Fowler, and his son Otto the Great, were studied and researched mainly through Widukind of Corvey's chronicle Res Gestae Saxonicae. There was one sourc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grabowski, Antoni
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Colección:Intellectual and political history.
Temas:
Otto > I, > Holy Roman Emperor, > 912-973.
Otto > I, > Holy Roman Emperor, > 912-973
919-1024
Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > General.
Historiography
Germany > History > Saxon House, 919-1024 > Historiography.
Allemagne > Histoire > 919-1024 (Dynastie saxonne) > Historiographie.
Germany
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Citations; Introduction; 1 Aims and State of the Art; 2 What is Myth/Mythology?; 3 Liudprand's Biography; 4 Origins of Antapodosis; 5 Language of Antapodosis; 6 Other Contemporary Sources: Widukind's Res gestae saxonicae; Continuation of the Chronicle of Regino of Prüm; Hrotsvit's Gesta Ottonis; 7 Interpreter of Liudprand: Frutolf of Michelsberg; 8 Understanding Liudprand's Works: Textbooks; Part I
  • The Making of a King; 1. Henry I at Fritzlar 919; The Beginning of a New Dynasty; 1. King's Designation; 2. Rex Renitens
  • 2. Otto I at Aachen 936A Successor
  • Continuator; 1. Death of a King; 2. Rise of the New King; 3. Anointment of the King as a political revolution; Part II
  • King and his Kingdom; 3. How Henry I Subjugated the Kingdom without Bloodshed; 4. Otto I and the Rebellion of 937-939; 1. Reasons for Rebellion; 2. Similarities and Main Differences in the Descriptions of the Rebellion Found in Sources; 3. Concept of Porphyrogenitus; 4. Further Discussion of Reasons for Rebellion; 5. Beginning of the Civil War in 937; 6. Battle of Birten; 7. After the First Battle; 8. Lorsch Affair
  • 9. Battle of Andernach10. Aftermath; Part III
  • War Against Heathens as a Road to Empire; 5. How Hungarians were Defeated by the Ottonians; 1. Henry's Victory in the Battle of Riade; 2. Battle of Lechfeld, The End of Hungarian Attacks; 3. The Hungarians as Enemies of Civilization; 6. The Holy Lance; A Symbol of Empire; Conclusions; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index

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