Rules and rituals in medieval power games : a German perspective / by Gerd Althoff.
2020
KK339 .A4813 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Rules and rituals in medieval power games : a German perspective / by Gerd Althoff.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Description
xi, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Medieval law and its practice ; v. 29.
Formatted Contents Note
Part 1. Introduction
What exactly are Spielregeln?
Spielregeln and rituals
Spielregeln, order of rank and conflicts
Part 2. Rules
Authority and violence of kings in tenth and eleventh century Germany
Rules of conflict among the warrior aristocracy of the High Middle Ages
Openness and secrecy : two fundamental categories of medieval communication
Saxon bishops in the tenth and eleventh centuries : strategies and rules of their political activities
The perspective of an expert : Gislebert of Mons
Part 3. Rituals
Rituals and their "Spielregeln" in the Middle Ages
The variability of rituals
Rituals as lingua franca? Joint cultural practices at the eastern borders of the realm
Symbolic communication and medieval order : strengths and weaknesses of ambiguous signs
Part 4. Gregorian Revolution
Papal authority in the High Middle Ages
Communicating papal primacy : the impact of Gregory VII's ideas (11th-13th century)
Examples of justifying and rejecting churchly violence at the time of the Gregorian Revolution
Part 5. History in literature
Do poets play with the rules of society?
Heroes who break the mould : Duke Ernst and the Emperor Otto
Conclusion.
What exactly are Spielregeln?
Spielregeln and rituals
Spielregeln, order of rank and conflicts
Part 2. Rules
Authority and violence of kings in tenth and eleventh century Germany
Rules of conflict among the warrior aristocracy of the High Middle Ages
Openness and secrecy : two fundamental categories of medieval communication
Saxon bishops in the tenth and eleventh centuries : strategies and rules of their political activities
The perspective of an expert : Gislebert of Mons
Part 3. Rituals
Rituals and their "Spielregeln" in the Middle Ages
The variability of rituals
Rituals as lingua franca? Joint cultural practices at the eastern borders of the realm
Symbolic communication and medieval order : strengths and weaknesses of ambiguous signs
Part 4. Gregorian Revolution
Papal authority in the High Middle Ages
Communicating papal primacy : the impact of Gregory VII's ideas (11th-13th century)
Examples of justifying and rejecting churchly violence at the time of the Gregorian Revolution
Part 5. History in literature
Do poets play with the rules of society?
Heroes who break the mould : Duke Ernst and the Emperor Otto
Conclusion.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Althoff, Gerd, Rules and rituals in medieval power games Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
Call Number
KK339 .A4813 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9789004408487 (hardback)
9004408487 (hardback)
9789004415317 (ebook)
9004408487 (hardback)
9789004415317 (ebook)
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