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The Construction of Ottonian Kingship : Narratives and Myth in Tenth-Century Germany / Antoni Grabowski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Intellectual and Political HistoryPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462987234
  • 9789048538737
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.1
LOC classification:
  • DD139 .G73 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Part I The Making of a King -- 1. Henry I at Fritzlar 919 -- 2. Otto I at Aachen 936 -- Part II King and his Kingdom -- 3. How Henry I Subjugated the Kingdom without Bloodshed -- 4. Otto I and the Rebellion of 937-939 -- Part III War Against Heathens as a Road to Empire -- 5. How Hungarians were Defeated by the Ottonians -- 6. The Holy Lance -- Conclusions -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 source on Ottonian times that was curiously absent from most of the serious research: Liudprand of Cremona's Antapodosis. The study of this chronicle leads to a reappraisal of the tenth century in Western Europe showing how mythology of the dynasty was constructed. By looking at the later reception (through later Middle Ages and then on 19th and 20th century historiography) the author showcases the longevity of Ottonian myths and the ideological expressions of the tenth century storytellers.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Part I The Making of a King -- 1. Henry I at Fritzlar 919 -- 2. Otto I at Aachen 936 -- Part II King and his Kingdom -- 3. How Henry I Subjugated the Kingdom without Bloodshed -- 4. Otto I and the Rebellion of 937-939 -- Part III War Against Heathens as a Road to Empire -- 5. How Hungarians were Defeated by the Ottonians -- 6. The Holy Lance -- Conclusions -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 source on Ottonian times that was curiously absent from most of the serious research: Liudprand of Cremona's Antapodosis. The study of this chronicle leads to a reappraisal of the tenth century in Western Europe showing how mythology of the dynasty was constructed. By looking at the later reception (through later Middle Ages and then on 19th and 20th century historiography) the author showcases the longevity of Ottonian myths and the ideological expressions of the tenth century storytellers.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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