Cosmas of Prague
| Titel: | Cosmas of Prague : narrative, classicism, politics / Lisa Wolverton |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Washington : The Catholic University of America Press, 2015 |
| Umfang: | XVI, 307 S. : Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 0813226910 ; 9780813226910 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Maps, Figures, and Table
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- 1
- Introduction 1
- Cosmas
- p. 4
- The Chronicle
- p. 11
- Interpreting Cosmas and His Chronicle
- p. 17
- 2
- The Historian's Craft Raw Materials
- p. 37
- Analyzing a Core Sample
- p. 51
- Narrativity and Coherence
- p. 69
- Conclusion
- p. 76
- 3
- A Pessimistic Theory of Power
- p. 81
- The Nature of Politics
- p. 82
- Power and Predation
- p. 91
- A Fearsome Archetype
- p. 102
- Contemporary Predators
- p. 109
- A Word about Audience
- p. 115
- 4
- Gendered Politics and Women's Voices
- p. 120
- Politics Made Masculine
- p. 121
- The Apolitical Voice
- p. 138
- A Feminized Church?
- p. 151
- Conclusion
- p. 160
- Epilogue: Matilda of Tuscany
- p. 161
- 5
- Characterizing a Decadent Political Culture
- p. 170
- Queen Money and the German Emperor
- p. 172
- The Vrsovici and Other Inimici Famiiiares
- p. 182
- Wars Worse Than Civil, or the Curse of Fratricide
- p. 197
- 6
- The Birth of a National History
- p. 215
- In the Beginning: The Land
- p. 220
- Territorial and Ethnic Instabilities
- p. 246
- Unity of Will
- p. 268
- 7
- Conclusion
- p. 274
- Power and the People
- p. 278
- Bibliography
- p. 291
- Index
- p. 305
