Noble society
Five lives from twelfth-century Germany
by Rosemary Horrox, Jonathan Lyon, Simon Maclean
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Noble society collects five Latin sources, translated into English for the first time, highlighting the diverse experiences of German aristocrats between 1075 and 1200. These biographical texts show noblemen and noblewomen - a margrave, a bishop, an abbess, a count and a magistra (the female leader of the women's side of a double monastic community) - living and dying. To read them together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of German society, as well as for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to the many ways that aristocratic culture permeated the world of high medieval Europe. The book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that will deepen their understanding of elite society in the twelfth-century German kingdom. Readers interested in gender history, noble culture and religious life will find rich evidence in these five sources for the lived experience of men and women inside and outside the Church.
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Noble society collects five Latin sources, translated into English for the first time, highlighting the diverse experiences of German aristocrats between 1075 and 1200. These biographical texts show noblemen and noblewomen - a margrave, a bishop, an abbess, a count and a magistra (the female leader of the women's side of a double monastic community) - living and dying. To read them together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of German society, as well as for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to the many ways that aristocratic culture permeated the world of high medieval Europe. The book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that will deepen their understanding of elite society in the twelfth-century German kingdom. Readers interested in gender history, noble culture and religious life will find rich evidence in these five sources for the lived experience of men and women inside and outside the Church.
Author Biography
Rosemary Horrox is Fellow in History, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge; ; Simon MacLean is Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719091032 / 0719091039
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 32.95 USD
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- SeriesManchester Medieval Sources
- Reference Code4388
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