Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, Table""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Cosmas""; ""The Chronicle""; ""Interpreting Cosmas and His Chronicle""; ""2. The Historian's Craft""; ""Raw Materials""; ""Analyzing a Core Sample""; ""Narrativity and Coherence""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. A Pessiimistic Theory of Power""; ""The Nature of Politics""; ""Power and Predation""; ""A Fearsome Archetype""; ""Contemporary Predators""; ""A Word about Audience""; ""4. Gendered Politics and Women's Voices""; ""Politics Made Masculine""; ""The Apolitical Voice""
  • ""A Feminized Church?""""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue: Matilda of Tuscany""; ""5. Characterizing a Decadent Political Culture""; ""Queen Money and the German Emperor""; ""The VrÅovici and Other Inimici Familiares""; ""Wars Worse Than Civil, or the Curse of Fratricide""; ""6. The Birth of a National History""; ""In the Beginning: The Land""; ""Territorial and Ethnic Instabilities""; ""Unity of Will""; ""7. Conclusion""; ""Power and the People""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""