ISBN10: 0472131397, ISBN13: 9780472131396, [publisher: University of Michigan Press] Hardcover Buy for Great customer experience
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ISBN10: 0472131397, ISBN13: 9780472131396, [publisher: University of Michigan Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0472131397, ISBN13: 9780472131396, [publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor] Hardcover Hardcover. Laura E. Wangerin challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empires rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal and imperial diplomas, manuscript illuminations, and histories, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of innovative approaches such as modern systems theories. This study suggests that distinctive elements of the Ottonians governing apparatus, such as its decentralized structure, emphasis on the royal iter, and delegation of authority, were essential features of a highly developed political system. Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire provides a welcome addition to English-language scholarship on the Ottonians, as well as to scholarship dealing with rulership and medieval legal studies. Scholars have recognized the importance of ritual and symbolic behaviors in the Ottonian political sphere, while puzzling over the apparent lack of administrative organization, a contradiction between what we know about the Ottonians as successful rulers and their traditional characterization as rulers of a disorganized polity. Trying to account for the apparent disparity between their political and military achievements, cultural and artistic efflorescence, and relative dynastic stability, which ...
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ISBN10: 0472131397, ISBN13: 9780472131396, [publisher: University of Michigan Press] Hardcover
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Hardback. New. Challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire's rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal diplomas, manuscript illuminations, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of modern systems theories. ISBN 0472131397 9780472131396 [GB]

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