1st Edition
The Construction of Ottonian Kingship Narratives and Myth in Tenth-Century Germany
By Antoni Grabowski
Copyright 2018
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Note on Citations, Introduction, Part I, Making of a King Chapter 1, Henry I at Fritzlar 919, A Beginning of a New Dynasty Chapter 2, Otto I at Aachen 936, A Successor — Continuator Part II, King and his Kingdom Chapter 3, How Henry I Subjugated the Kingdom without Bloodshed Chapter 4, Otto I and Rebellion of 937-939 Part III, War Against Heathens as a Road to Empire Chapter 5, How Hungarians were Defeated by the Ottonians Chapter 6, The Holy Lance, a Symbol of Empire Conclusions List of Abbreviations Bibliography. Acknowledgements 3 Note on Citations, 4 Introduction 5 Part I, Making of a King. Chapter 1, Henry I at Fritzlar 919, A Beginning of a New Dynasty 41 Chapter 2, Otto I at Aachen 936, A Successor - Continuator, Part II, King and his Kingdom, Chapter 3, How Henry I Subjugated the Kingdom without Bloodshed, Chapter 4, Otto I and Rebellion of 937-939, Part III, War Against Heathens as a Road to Empire, Chapter 5, How Hungarians were Defeated by the Ottonians, Chapter 6, The Holy Lance, a Symbol of Empire, Conclusions, List of Abbreviations, Bibliography.
Biography
Dr Antoni Grabowski works at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is interested in the historiography of the tenth century, its later reinterpretations, and the use of historical sources in medieval narratives.
