Transregnal kingship in the thirteenth century / edited by Jörg Peltzer and Nicholas Vincent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peltzer, Jörg, 1975- editor.

Vincent, Nicholas, editor.

British Academy, issuing body.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 275.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 275

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interregionalism--Europe--History--Congresses.

Interregionalism.

Kings and rulers--Congresses.

Kings and rulers.

Interregionalism--Europe--History.

Europe.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 310 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Transregnal kingship in the 13th century

Place of Publication:

London : The 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. Perceptions of royal authority and kingly sovereignty changed significantly during the thirteenth century, and as the role played by kingdoms as sovereign polities was strengthened, the framework for transregnal kingship shifted. This volumes investigates the consequences, examining the theory, perception and administrative practices of transregnal kingship. Intended to provide a coherent picture that itself may facilitate comparisons, the work focuses on four distinct, but significantly intertwined polities: The Empire, France, The Angevin Empire, and the Papacy. Despite its frequent occurrence, transregnal kingship played a relatively small role in contemporary political thought, and transregnal practice took a great variety of forms, showing rulers and the ruled adapting to circumstance rather than pursuing any pre-conceived grand strategy. Meanwhile, the ruler's frequent physical absence provoked the creation of multiple forms of vice-regal power. In the Empire, it also led to an increased use of arbitration as a means to solve disputes at regional level. Finally, an analysis of architecture and the built environment suggests that such things exhibit a fascinating combination of the political and the merely fashionable."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: transregnal kingship / Jörg Peltzer and Nicholas Vincent

Part I: Theory

Transregnal kingship in thirteenth-century treatises of political thought / Frédérique Lachaud

A special case?: the papacy in the early thirteenth century / Barbara Bombi

Part II: Imperium

Ruling Germany and the empire: the thirteenth century / Martin Kaufhold

'Profitemur imperium nichil prorsus iuris habere in regno Sicilie': relations between the empire and Sicily during the reign of Frederick II / Lioba Geis

Perceptions of transregnal imperial rule in thirteenth-century Germany / Len Scales

Part III: Mediterranean worlds

The fractured empire of Charles I of Anjou / David Abulafia

Holy opportunity: transregnal lordship in three crusading families / G.E.M. Lippiatt

The many Sicilies?: 'Angevin' architecture at the turn of the thirteenth century, with notes on Robert Willis' Remarks (1835) / Paola Vitolo

Part IV: England and France

The Plantagenet 'empire' in the thirteenth century: survival, reorganisation, and reorientation / Daniel Power

Royal inquests in western Gascony during the reign of Henry III (1228-1255) / Frédéric Boutoulle

Imposition and appropriation?: architecture, the associated arts, and the presentation of rulership in the shell of the Angevin empire, 1200-1300 / Lindy Grant

Part V: Crowned with many crowns

A different path?: the single crown of Louis IX / William Chester Jordan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781836245919

1836245912

OCLC:

1534519077

Publisher Number:

CIPO000269582