Itinerant kingship and royal monasteries in early medieval Germany, c. 936-1075
This book assimilates a great deal of European scholarship on the realities and structures of power. It examines an important aspect of early medieval government, itinerant kingship, and shows how monasteries and convents in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany lent it crucial economic and political support.
Church history
398 pages ; 22 cm
9780521521833, 0521521831
1064997554
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. German kingship and royal monasteries: the historical and historiographical context; 2. Itinerant kingship, royal monasteries and the servitium regis; 3. Servitium regis and monastic property; 4. Monasteries in the Saxon heartland; 5. Monasteries in Westphalia; 6. Monasteries in the Saxon-Hessian border; 7. Monasteries in Hesse and Thuringia; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Originally published: 1993