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Title Queenship and sanctity : the lives of Mathilda and the epitaph of Adelheid / translated with an introduction and notes by Sean Gilsdorf
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Medieval texts in translation
Medieval texts in translation.
Contents The World of Mathilda and Adelheid -- Ottonian Saxony -- Burgundy and Northern Italy -- Genealogical Tables -- The Liudolfings -- The Burgundian Rudolfings -- I. The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid -- Tenth-Century Europe Queens and Queenship in the Early Middle Ages -- II. The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid -- Origins and Authorship -- Monasticism in the Lives and the EA The Tradition of Sacred Biography -- Tradition Remade : Marriage, Queenship, and Royal Sanctity -- Holy Mother : The Lives and the Politics of Sanctity -- Holy Ruler : The EA and the Sanctity of Politics -- Afterlife -- III. The Translations -- The "Older Life" of Queen Mathilda -- The "Later Life" of Queen Mathilda -- Odilo of Cluny, The Epitaph of the August Lord Adelheid -- Appendix 1. Widukind of Corvey on Queen Mathilda -- Appendix 2. Mathilda and the Stirps Widukindi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Matilda, Queen, consort of Henry I, King of Germany, approximately 895-968.
Adelaide, Empress, consort of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, 931-999.
SUBJECT Adelaide, Empress, consort of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, 931-999 fast
Matilda, Queen, consort of Henry I, King of Germany, approximately 895-968 fast
Mathilde (Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Königin) swd
Adelheid (Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiserin, 931-999) swd
Subject Queens -- Germany -- Biography
Christian saints -- Germany -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
Christian saints
Queens
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Henry I, 919-936 -- Sources
Germany -- History -- Otto I, 936-973 -- Sources
Subject Germany
Genre/Form collective biographies.
History
Biographies
Sources
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gilsdorf, Sean, 1966-
Odilo, Saint, Abbot of Cluny, 962-1048 or 1049. Epitaphium Adelheidae imperatricis. English.
ISBN 9780813216089
0813216087
OTHER TI Vita Mathildis reginae antiquior. English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003041624
Vita Mathildis reginae posterior. English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003041625
Other Titles Lives of Mathilda
Epitaph of Adelheid
Lives of Mathilda
Epitaph of Adelheid
Lives of Mathilda
Epitaph of Adelheid
Lives of Mathilda
Epitaph of Adelheid
Lives of Mathilda
Epitaph of Adelheid
Epitaph of Adelheid
Lives of Mathilda