Transregnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century : Jörg Peltzer and Nicholas Vincent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peltzer, Jörg, 1975-

Contributor:

Vincent, Nicholas.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy Series:Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : British Academy, 2025.

Summary:

Transregnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century explores a wide-spread European phenomenon: rulership over multiple kingdoms, or a kingdom in combination with major non-royal lordships elsewhere.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: Transregnal Kingship

Transregnal Terminologies

Impulses and Innovations

Community versus King

Instances and Exceptions

Consequences versus Causes

Part I: Theory

1 Transregnal Kingship in Thirteenth-Century Treatises of Political Thought

Nature as a Model for Political Communities

The Empire

The Augustinian View of Empire

The Aristotelian View of Unjust Domination, and its Reworking

A Nuanced View of Expanded Domination

Unity and Multiplicity

The Principle of Unity, and its Critics

Another Definition of Unity

Empire and Kingdom

Conclusion

2 A Special Case? The Papacy in the Early Thirteenth Century

The Scholarly Debate: 'Papal Monarchy' and 'Papal Overlordship'

Papal Authority and Arbitration in International Affairs: The Decretal 'Novit' (X 2.1.13)

The Perception of Papal Supra-Regnal Authority and Diplomatic Arbitration in the Canonistic Debate over 'Novit' (1206-c. 1250)

Conclusions

Part II: Imperium

3 Ruling Germany and the Empire: The Thirteenth Century

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

4 'Profitemur imperium nichil prorsus iuris habere in regno Sicilie': Relations between the Empire and Sicily during the Reign of Frederick II

Strangers in the Kingdom of Sicily

Elite Exchange and the Transmission of Administrative Structures

Frederick II as a Transregnal Ruler

5 Perceptions of Transregnal Imperial Rule in Thirteenth-Century Germany

Part III: Mediterranean Worlds

6 The Fractured Empire of Charles I of Anjou

7 Holy Opportunity: Transregnal Lordship in Three Crusading Families

Three Franco-Mediterranean Families.

The Lusignans

The Briennes

The Montforts

French Connections

Mediterranean Networks

Crusading Intentions?

8 The Many Sicilies? 'Angevin' Architecture at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century, with Notes on Robert Willis' Remarks (1835)

Part IV: England and France

9 The Plantagenet 'Empire' in the Thirteenth Century: Survival, Reorganisation, and Reorientation

The Territorial Extent of the Angevin 'Empire' (c. 1200-c. 1250)

The Reorientation of the Angevin 'Empire' (1252-59)

Connections between the Angevin Lands

Using the Royal Dynasty

Landowners and Officials

Administrative and Fiscal Connections

The Addition of Ponthieu to the Plantagenet Dominions (1279)

10 Royal Inquests in Western Gascony during the Reign of Henry III (1228-1255)

Inquests in Gascony: A Little-Used Instrument

The Inquest of 1236-37 in Retrospect

11 Imposition and Appropriation? Architecture, the Associated Arts, and the Presentation of Rulership in the Shell of the Angevin Empire, 1200-1300

Part V: Crowned with Many Crowns

12 A Different Path? The Single Crown of Louis IX

Index.

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ISBN:

1-83624-955-1

1-83624-948-9