The favor of friends : intercession and aristocratic politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe / Sean Gilsdorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilsdorf, Sean, 1966- author.

Series:

Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; Volume 23.

Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, 1878-4879 ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristocracy (Social class)--Europe--History--To 1500.

Aristocracy (Social class).

Intercession--Europe--History--To 1500.

Intercession.

Political culture--Europe--History--To 1500.

Political culture.

Carolingians.

France--History--To 987.

France.

Holy Roman Empire--History--Saxon House, 919-1024.

Holy Roman Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration of intercession—aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of another—within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, and how it was ideologically elaborated, in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, allowing individuals and groups to leverage their own, limited interpersonal networks to the fullest, produce new relationships, gain access to previously closed spaces, and generate interest in their agendas from those able to effect change. The Favor of Friends enriches our understanding of early medieval politics and rulership, offering a model of political interaction in which hierarchy and comity do not stand in ideological and pragmatic tension, but instead work in integrated and mutually-reinforcing ways.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Sean Gilsdorf

Understanding Intercession: Sources and Approaches / Sean Gilsdorf

Courting Intercession: Amici, Allies, and Advocacy / Sean Gilsdorf

Making Intercession: Companions, Kin, and Consorts / Sean Gilsdorf

Embodying Intercession: The Mediatory Politics of the Episcopacy / Sean Gilsdorf

The End(s) of Intercession: Consolidations and Conclusions / Sean Gilsdorf

Appendix 1 Diplomatic intercession, Conrad I to Conrad II (911–1039) / Sean Gilsdorf

Appendix 2 Excluded diplomata, Conrad I to Conrad II / Sean Gilsdorf

Bibliography / Sean Gilsdorf

Index / Sean Gilsdorf.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26459-0

OCLC:

873805748

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004264595 DOI