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Queenship and sanctity : The lives of Mathilda and The epitaph of Adelheid / translated with an introduction and notes by Sean Gilsdorf.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval texts in translation.
- Medieval texts in translation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matilda, Queen, consort of Henry I, King of Germany, approximately 895-968.
- Matilda.
- Adelaide, Empress, consort of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, 931-999.
- Adelaide.
- Queens--Germany--Biography.
- Queens.
- Christian saints--Germany--Biography.
- Christian saints.
- Germany--History--Henry I, 919-936--Sources.
- Germany.
- Germany--History--Otto I, 936-973--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Queenship and Sanctity brings together for the first time in English the anonymous Lives of Mathilda and Odilo of Cluny's Epitaph of Adelheid.Richly annotated, with an extensive introduction placing the texts and their subjects in historical and hagiographical context, it provides teachers and students with a crucial set of sources.
- Contents:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Maps""; ""The World of Mathilda and Adelheid""; ""Ottonian Saxony""; ""Burgundy and Northern Italy""; ""Genealogical Tables""; ""The Liudolfings""; ""The Burgundian Rudolfings""; ""Introduction""; ""I. The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid""; ""Europe in the Tenth Century""; ""Queens and Queenship in the Early Middle Ages""; ""II. The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid""; ""Origins and Authorship""; ""Monasticism in the Lives and The Epitaph of Adelheid""; ""The Tradition of Sacred Biography""
- ""Tradition Remade: Marriage, Queenship, and Royal Sanctity"" ""Holy Mother: The Lives and the Politics of Sanctity""; ""Holy Ruler: The Epitaph of Adelheid and the Sanctity of Politics""; ""Afterlife""; ""III. The Translations""; ""Translated Texts""; ""(Anonymous), The Older Life of Queen Mathilda""; ""(Anonymous), The Later Life of Queen Mathilda""; ""Odilo of Cluny, The Epitaph of Adelheid""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix 1: Widukind of Corvey on Queen Mathilda (Res Gestae 1.31 and 3.74)""; ""Appendix 2: Mathilda and the Stirps Widukindi""
- ""Appendix 3: Vestigia deosculari: St. Efrem, Bavaria, and the Vita Mathildis posterior""""Endnotes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Contains:
- Odilo, Saint, Abbot of Cluny, 962-1048 or 1049. Epitaphium Adelheidae imperatricis. English
- Vita Mathildis reginae antiquior. English
- Vita Mathildis reginae posterior. English
- Lives of Mathilda.
- Epitaph of Adelheid.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1608-7
- OCLC:
- 922996445
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