The cultural power of medieval monarchy : politics, learning and patronage of learning in the royal courts of Europe, 1000-1300 /
This book focuses on why the diffusion of the political theology of royal wisdom created 'Solomonic' princes with intellectual interests all around the medieval West and how these learned rulers changed the face of western Europe through their policies and the cultural power of medieval mo...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Studies in medieval history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Sapiential rulership in the Carolingian Renaissance and its Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian continuators (c. 800-1000)
- The Salian Reich and frontier Europe: the reception of sapiential sacral rulership around the Year Thousand
- The king as miles literatus: literacy, knighthood, and feudal rulership
- The twelfth-century Renaissance: culture and statecraft
- The clerk king: administrative kingship and royal knowledge in the Norman kingdoms and Capetian France (c. 1050-1250)
- The Hohenstaufen emperors: empire and wisdom in the twelfth century
- Two philosopher-kings in the thirteenth century: Frederick II of Sicily and Alfonso X of Castile
- Bibliography.