Rules and rituals in medieval power games : a German perspective
Bibliographic Information
Rules and rituals in medieval power games : a German perspective
by Gerd Althoff
（Medieval law and its practice, v. 29）
Brill, c2020
Available at / 1 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p255-277) and index
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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Gerd Althoffs 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.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Original Publications
Part 1: Introduction
1 What Exactly Are Spielregeln?
2 Spielregeln and Rituals
3 Spielregeln, Order of Rank and Conflicts
Part 2: Rules
4 Authority and Violence of Kings in Tenth and Eleventh Century Germany
5 Rules of Conflict among the Warrior Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages
6 Openness and Secrecy: Two Fundamental Categories of Medieval Communication
7 Saxon Bishops in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Strategies and Rules of Their Political Activities
8 The Perspective of an Expert: Gislebert of Mons
Part 3: Rituals
9 Rituals and Their "Spielregeln" in the Middle Ages
10 The Variability of Rituals
11 Rituals as Lingua Franca? Joint Cultural Practises at the Eastern Borders of the Realm
12 Symbolic Communication and Medieval Order: Strengths and Weaknesses of Ambiguous Signs
Part 4: Gregorian Revolution
13 Papal Authority in the High Middle Ages
14 Communicating Papal Primacy: the Impact of Gregory VII's Ideas (11th-13th Century)
15 Examples of Justifying and Rejecting Churchly Violence at the Time of the Gregorian Revolution
Part 5: History in Literature
16 Do Poets Play with the Rules of Society?
17 Heroes Who Break the Mould: Duke Ernst and the Emperor Otto
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
