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Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony - Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg (Hardcover)
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Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony - Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German History
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In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past
changed how they saw the present. New accounts of former leaders
and their deeds could strengthen their successors, establish novel
claims to power, or criticize the current ruler. After 888, when
the Carolingian Empire fractured into the smaller kingdoms of
medieval western Europe, memory became a vital tool for those
seeking to claim royal power for themselves. Commemorating Power in
Early Medieval Saxony looks at how the past was evoked for
political purposes under a new Saxon dynasty, the Ottonians, who
came to dominate post-Carolingian Europe as the rulers of a new
empire in Germany and Italy. With the accession of the first
Ottonian king, Henry I, in 919, sites commemorating the king's
family came to the foreground of the medieval German kingdom. The
most remarkable of these were two convents of monastic women,
Gandersheim and Quedlinburg, whose prominence and prestige in
Ottonian politics have been seen as exceptional in the history of
early medieval western Europe. In this volume, Sarah Greer offers a
fresh interpretation of how these convents became central sites in
the new Ottonian empire by revealing how the women in these
communities themselves were skilful political actors who were more
than capable of manipulating memory for their own benefit. In this
first major study in English of how these Saxon convents functioned
as memorial centres, Greer presents a new vision of the first
German dynasty, one characterized by contingency, versatility, and
the power of the past.
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