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Ottonian Queenship (Hardcover)
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Ottonian Queenship (Hardcover)
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This is the first major study in English of the queens of the
Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from
Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval
German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties
to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European Carolingian Empire
after it disintegrated in 888, ruling as kings and emperors in
Germany and Italy and exerting indirect hegemony in France and in
Eastern Europe. It has long been noted by historians that Ottonian
queens were peculiarly powerful - indeed, among the most powerful
of the entire Middle Ages. Their reputations, particularly those of
the empresses Theophanu (d.991) and Adelheid (d.999) have been
commemorated for a thousand years in art, literature, and opera.
But while the exceptional status of the Ottonian queens is well
appreciated, it has not been fully explained. Ottonian Queenship
offers an original interpretation of Ottonian queenship through a
study of the sources for the dynasty's six queens, and seeks to
explain it as a phenomenon with a beginning, middle, and end. The
argument is that Ottonian queenship has to be understood as a
feature in a broader historical landscape, and that its history is
intimately connected with the unfolding story of the royal dynasty
as a whole. Simon MacLean therefore interprets the spectacular
status of Ottonian royal women not as a matter of extraordinary
individual personalities, but as a distinctive product of the
post-Carolingian era in which the certainties of the ninth century
were breaking down amidst overlapping struggles for elite family
power, royal legitimacy, and territory. Queenship provides a thread
which takes us through the complicated story of a crucial century
in Europe's creation, and helps explain how new ideas of order were
constructed from the debris of the past.
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