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Law, rulership, and rhetoric : selected essays of Robert L. Benson / edited by Loren J. Weber ; in collaboration with Giles Constable and Richard H. Rouse ; foreword by Horst Fuhrmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benson, Robert L., 1925-1996, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle Ages.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- History.
- Monarchy--History.
- Monarchy.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Middle Ages--Historiography.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 382 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Foreword : In memory of Robert L. Benson (1925/1996) / Horst Fuhrmann
- Thought and culture.
- Urbs et orbis: an ancient roman topos in medieval political language
- Bishop, metropolitan, and primate: a study on the conceptions of Oyce and hierarchy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
- Self-knowledge and consciousness of self: aspects of spirituality in the meditations of Guigo I of the Charterhouse
- The strange avair of the Abbess Margaret, or what a medieval historian does
- Miserrimi miserorum: Boncompagno on the evils of old age
- Appendix: Boncompagno, de malo senectutis et senii
- Art and rulership.
- The politics of symmetry: sacerdotium and regnum in the mirror of medieval art (800/1200)
- Images of David in Psalters and Bibles: medieval interpretations of biblical kingship as mirrored in art
- Images of rulership on a romanesque chalice from Trzemeszno
- Medieval rulership.
- In praise of the Franks: rhetorical influences on the early Germanic monarchies
- A critique of Fritz Kern's Gottesgnadentum und widerstandsrecht im frøheren mittelalter
- The king as novus David: political uses of the Old Testament in the Early Middle Ages
- Imperator oeconomus ecclesiae: notes on a decretistic theory of the imperial office
- Frederick Barbarossa.
- The Treaty of Constance: prelude and epilogue
- The clash at Besançon (October 1157)
- Frederick Barbarossa as "lord of the world"
- Medieval history in modern perspective.
- Norman Cantor and "the Nazi twins": on inventing the Middle Ages
- Comment on a paper by Thomas F. Mathews, "How art history mistook Christ for the emperor"
- The "mythic" in studies of Frederick II Hohenstaufen
- The medievalist as hero.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268022341
- 0268022348
- OCLC:
- 842209329
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