Commemorating power in early medieval Saxony : writing and rewriting the past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg

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Commemorating power in early medieval Saxony : writing and rewriting the past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg

Title remainder

writing and rewriting the past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Greer

Creator

• Greer, Sarah, (Researcher)

Subject

• Literature, Medieval -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Memorialization -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
• Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Germany | Saxony -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Stift Gandersheim (Bad Gandersheim, Germany) -- History
• Stift Quedlinburg (Quedlinburg, Germany) -- History
• Women and literature -- Germany | Saxony -- History -- To 1500
• Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Saxon House, 919-1024

Language

eng

Summary

This title looks at how the past was evoked for political purposes under a new Saxon dynasty, the Ottonians, who came to dominate post-Carolingian Europe after 888 as the rulers of a new empire in Germany and Italy. Two convents of monastic women who played a significant role in Ottonian politics are the main focus of the book.--

Member of

• Studies in German history

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Provided by publisher

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.