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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807357403321

Autore

Gilsdorf Sean J. <1966->

Titolo

The favor of friends : intercession and aristocratic politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe / / Sean Gilsdorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26459-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, , 1878-4879 ; ; Volume 23

Disciplina

305.5/2094

Soggetti

Aristocracy (Social class) - Europe - History - To 1500

Intercession - Europe - History - To 1500

Political culture - Europe - History - To 1500

Carolingians

France History To 987

Holy Roman Empire History Saxon House, 919-1024

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Sean Gilsdorf -- Understanding Intercession: Sources and Approaches / Sean Gilsdorf -- Courting Intercession: Amici, Allies, and Advocacy / Sean Gilsdorf -- Making Intercession: Companions, Kin, and Consorts / Sean Gilsdorf -- Embodying Intercession: The Mediatory Politics of the Episcopacy / Sean Gilsdorf -- The End(s) of Intercession: Consolidations and Conclusions / Sean Gilsdorf -- Appendix 1 Diplomatic intercession, Conrad I to Conrad II (911–1039) / Sean Gilsdorf -- Appendix 2 Excluded diplomata, Conrad I to Conrad II / Sean Gilsdorf -- Bibliography / Sean Gilsdorf -- Index / Sean Gilsdorf.

Sommario/riassunto

The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration of intercession—aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of another—within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, and how it was ideologically elaborated, in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, allowing individuals and groups to leverage their own, limited interpersonal networks to the



fullest, produce new relationships, gain access to previously closed spaces, and generate interest in their agendas from those able to effect change. The Favor of Friends enriches our understanding of early medieval politics and rulership, offering a model of political interaction in which hierarchy and comity do not stand in ideological and pragmatic tension, but instead work in integrated and mutually-reinforcing ways.