| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages .) |
| Contents |
""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, Table""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Cosmas""; ""The Chronicle""; ""Interpreting Cosmas and His Chronicle""; ""2. The Historian's Craft""; ""Raw Materials""; ""Analyzing a Core Sample""; ""Narrativity and Coherence""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. A Pessiimistic Theory of Power""; ""The Nature of Politics""; ""Power and Predation""; ""A Fearsome Archetype""; ""Contemporary Predators""; ""A Word about Audience""; ""4. Gendered Politics and Women's Voices""; ""Politics Made Masculine""; ""The Apolitical Voice"" |
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""A Feminized Church?""""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue: Matilda of Tuscany""; ""5. Characterizing a Decadent Political Culture""; ""Queen Money and the German Emperor""; ""The Vršovici and Other Inimici Familiares""; ""Wars Worse Than Civil, or the Curse of Fratricide""; ""6. The Birth of a National History""; ""In the Beginning: The Land""; ""Territorial and Ethnic Instabilities""; ""Unity of Will""; ""7. Conclusion""; ""Power and the People""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?-1125 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?-1125. Chronica Boemorum.
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| SUBJECT |
Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?-1125 fast |
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Chronica Boemorum (Cosmas, of Prague) fast |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Central Europe.
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| SUBJECT |
Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- History -- To 1526.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015309
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| Subject |
Czech Republic -- Bohemia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813226929 |
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9780813226927 |
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