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Building legitimacy : political discourses and forms of legitimacy in medieval societies /

This volume presents a selection of papers exploring the ways by which medieval powers sought to legitimize themselves, the political discourses through which this was effected and a wide range of related problems.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Alfonso Antón, Isabel, Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.), Escalona, Julio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:Medieval Mediterranean ; . 53.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conflict, power, and legitimation in Francia in the late seventh and eighth centuries / Paul Fouracre
  • A crisis of fidelity in c. 1000? / Stephen White
  • Judicial rhetoric and political legitimation in medieval León-Castile / Isabel Alfonso
  • Legitimation, designation and succession to the throne in fourteenth-century England / Chris Given-Wilson
  • The king's face on the territory : royal officers, discourse and legitimating practices in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Castile / Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro
  • The importance of being earnest : urban elites and the distribution of power in Castilian towns in the late Middle Ages / José Antonio Jara Fuente
  • The strengthening of royal power in Castile under Alfonso XI / Carlos Estepa
  • Family memories : inventing Alfonso I of Asturias / Julie Escalona
  • An interpreter of law and power in a region of medieval Poland : Abbot Peter of Henryków and his book / Piotr Górecki
  • Political struggle and the legitimation of the Toledan primacy : the Pars Lateranii concilii / Patrick Henriet
  • Albertano of Brescia, Rolandino of Padua and the rhetoric of legitimation / Frances Andrews.