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The Favor of Friends: Intercession and Aristocratic Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, cartea 23

Autor Sean J. Gilsdorf
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mar 2014
The Favor of Friends 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. The Favor of Friends 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004264588
ISBN-10: 9004264582
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages


Cuprins

Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Understanding Intercession Sources and Approaches
Chapter 2: Courting Intercession Amici, Allies, and Advocacy
Chapter 3: Making Intercession Companions, Kin, and Consorts
Chapter 4: Embodying Intercession The Mediatory Politics of the Episcopacy
Chapter 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 to Conrad II

Bibliography

Index

Notă biografică

Sean Gilsdorf (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2007) is Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University and Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Mt. Holyoke College. He is the author of Queenship and Sanctity (Catholic University Press, 2004).

Recenzii

"...There is much to praise about this book. It is the most comprehensive and subtle treatment of political intercession in the ninth and tenth centuries and should be read with care by all students and scholars of the Carolingian empire and its immediate successors. Gilsdorf has read widely in the extensive literature on diplomatics and royal ritual and his work builds on and adjusts the conclusions of Geoffrey Koziol, Gerd Althoff and others in this regard. Above all, Gilsdorf is to be applauded for covering so much ground (both historical and theoretical) so swiftly; this study says more in 172 pages of main text than many do in twice this space. [...] This is an example of charter scholarship at its finest, combining diplomatic precision and rigour with a strong sense of the broader socio-political significance of the practices examined. The Favor of Friends establishes Gilsdorf as one of the leading authorities on tenth-century Europe and should be read not only by fellow specialists, but also by students of kingship, charters and ritual throughout the Middle Ages [...] Like the work of Geoffrey Koziol and Hagen Keller at its best, Gilsdorf’s study serves as a salutary reminder of just how much royal diplomas and other documentary sources have to tell us, especially in quellenarmen Zeiten (‘times poor in sources’)." – Levi Roach, in: Reviews in History [DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/1631] (Date accessed: 1 August, 2014)

"Gilsdorf makes an important contribution in this volume not only by synthesizing the scholarship and analyzing the available source material for intercession under the Carolingian and Ottonian kings, but also through his depiction of the practice of politics among magnates, and between magnates and the ruler. Gilsdorf’s clear and detailed analysis of scores of letters and charters leaves no doubt that intercession lay at the center of aristocratic politics in the Carolingian and Ottonian kingdoms. In addition, Gilsdorf’s emphasis on the continuity of the practices of aristocratic intercession from the late Roman Empire through the end of the Ottonian period is yet further evidence for the formative role played by Rome in the shaping of medieval Europe." – David S. Bachrach, in: Speculum 90/4 (2015).

"Dans ce livre relativement bref, Sean Gilsdorf accomplit pourtant beaucoup. Il concentre son attention sur l’intercession, révélée principalement dans des lettres et diplômes, essentiellement sur l’Empire carolingien au IXe s et sur l’Allemagne ottonienne au et Xe s début du XIe s. Mais, certaines des contributions les plus importantes de The Favor of Friends sont dues à la volonté de l’a. de sortir de ces limites. [...] The Favor of Friends n’est donc pas le dernier mot sur la pratique de l’intercession à cette époque, mais il est de loin le meilleur rédigé jusqu’alors. Tout aussi important, la clarté des catégories analytiques de S. Gisldorf permettra à d’autres d’examiner plus facilement l’intercession occidentale, capétienne, italienne et même anglo-saxonne avec un vocabulaire concordant et un ensemble cohérent de modèles d’interprétation. Cela devrait permettre aux futurs érudits non seulement d’écrire des rapports plus pertinents sur l’intercession dans ces royaumes, mais aussi d’isoler les éléments vraiment distinctifs de la politique et de sa représentation au sein des royaumes". Geoffrey G. Koziol, in Cahiers de Civilisation-Medievale, 253, (2021).