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1 online resource |
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Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages ; 23 |
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Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; 23.
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| Contents |
The Favor of Friends; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Understanding Intercession: Sources and Approaches; 2. Courting Intercession: Amici, Allies, and Advocacy; 3. Making Intercession: Companions, Kin, and Consorts; 4. Embodying Intercession: The Mediatory Politics of the Episcopacy; 5. The End(s) of Intercession: Consolidations and Conclusions; Appendix 1: Diplomatic Intercession, Conrad I to Conrad II (911-1039); Appendix 2: Excluded Diplomata, Conrad I-Conrad II; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book offers the first book-length exploration of intercession- aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of another-within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, and how it was ideologically elaborated, in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, allowing individuals and groups to leverage their own, limited interpersonal networks to the fullest, produce new relationships, gain access to previously closed spaces, and generate interest in their agendas from those able to effect change. This book enriches our understanding of early medieval politics and rulership, offering a model of political interaction in which hierarchy and comity do not stand in ideological and pragmatic tension, but instead work in integrated and mutually-reinforcing ways |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Intercession -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Political culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Carolingians.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Aristocracy (Social class)
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Carolingians
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Intercession
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Political culture
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| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- To 987.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051257
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Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Saxon House, 919-1024.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061585
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Europe
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Europe -- Holy Roman Empire
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004264595 |
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9004264590 |
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1306493587 |
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9781306493581 |
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