Noble society: Five lives from twelfth-century Germany (Manchester Medieval Sources) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719091020 ISBN 13: 9780719091025

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to some of the many ways that noble life shaped the world of central medieval Europe.

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About the Author

Jonathan R. Lyon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago

Review

‘This is a rich collection and, like other volumes in the Manchester stable, destined to become a staple of many undergraduate courses.’ Johanna Dale, University College London, The Medieval Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0719091020
• ISBN 13: 9780719091025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288