Noble society : five lives from twelfth-century Germany / selected sources translated and annotated by Jonathan R. Lyon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyon, Jonathan Reed, translator, editor.

Series:

Manchester medieval sources series

Manchester Medieval Sources

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--Germany--History--To 1500.

Nobility.

Nobility--Germany--Biography.

History.

Germany.

Germany--History--843-1273.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press 2017.

Summary:

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to some of the many ways that noble life shaped the world of central medieval Europe.

Contents:

Introduction

The deeds of Margrave Wiprecht of Groitzsch (d. 1124)

The life of Bishop Otto of Bamberg (d. 1139), by a monk of Prüfening

The life of an unnamed magistra of Admont (d. mid-twelfth century)

The life of Mechthild of Diessen (d. 1160), by Engelhard of Langheim

The deeds of Count Ludwig of Arnstein (d. 1185).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780719091025

0719091020

9780719091032

0719091039

OCLC:

974862551