MacLean, Simon and Weiler Bjorn, (eds)
Representations of Power in Medieval Germany 800-1500, Turnhout, 2006, 16 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, xiv + 348 pp.
ISBN: 978-2-503-51815-2

Contents
Preface			ix
List of Contributors			xi
List of Illustrations			xiii
		Introduction Simon MacLean and Björn Weiler	1
		The Perception of 'Power' and 'State' in the Early Middle Ages: The Case of the Astronomer's 'Life of Louis the Pious' Hans-Werner Goetz	15
		The Idea of Empire in Carolingian Bavaria Warren Brown	37
		'Regina nitens sanctissima Hemma': Queen Emma (827-876), Bishop Witgar of Augsburg, and the Witgar-Belt Eric J. Goldberg	57
		Ritual, Misunderstanding, and the Contest for Meaning: Representations of the Disrupted Royal Assembly at Frankfurt (873) Simon MacLean	97
		The Representation of Empire: Otto I at Ravenna David A. Warner	121
		Concepts and Practice of Empire in Ottonian Germany (950-1024) John W. Bernhardt	141
		German Historiography and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance Sverre Bagge	165
		The Creation of the Codex Falkensteinensis (1166): Self-Representation and Reality John B. Freed	189
		The Power of Love: Representations of Kingship in the Love-Songs of Henry VI and Frederick II, and in the Manesse Codex and the Liber ad honorem Augusti of Peter of Eboli Jeffrey Ashcroft	211
		Reasserting Power: Frederick II in Germany (1235-1236) Björn Weiler	241
		The Role of Frederick II in the Works of Guillaume de Nangis Chris Jones	273
		The Electors and Imperial Rule at the End of the Fifteenth Century Henry J. Cohn	295
		How One Archbishop of Trier Perambulated his Lands Mikhail A. Bojcov	319

 

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