Cover; COURTING POWER; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editors' Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Background to the Question; 1. Framing the Facts in Medieval Epistolary Theory; 2. Persuasion and Reception; 3. Pope vs. Emperor: The Issues of Contention; Part 2: Persuasion and Power at the Papal Chancery; 4. Elevated Prose Style and Power at the Chancery of Innocent III; 5. Harmony and Conflict at the Chancery of Honorius III; 6. Limits of Persuasion at the Chancery of Gregory IX; Part 3: Persuasion and Resistance at the Imperial Chancery
7. Emergence of a New Paradigm of Persuasion8. Persuasion and the Science of Nature at the Court of Frederick II; 9. The Failure of Persuasion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
First Published in 1999
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index
Notes
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SUBJECT
Friedrich (Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser, II.) swd
