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

Commemorating power in early medieval Saxony : writing and rewriting the past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg / Sarah Greer.

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 ar...

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Main Author: Greer, Sarah (Researcher) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Studies in German history (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Stift Gandersheim (Bad Gandersheim, Germany) > History.
Stift Quedlinburg (Quedlinburg, Germany) > History.
Stift Gandersheim (Bad Gandersheim, Germany)
Stift Quedlinburg (Quedlinburg, Germany)
To 1500
Monasticism and religious orders for women > Germany > Saxony > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women and literature > Germany > Saxony > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval > Women authors > History and criticism.
Memorialization > Germany > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval > Women authors
Memorialization
Monasticism and religious orders for women > Middle Ages
Women and literature
Holy Roman Empire > History > Saxon House, 919-1024.
Europe > Holy Roman Empire
Germany
Germany > Saxony
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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