MacLean, Simon,

Ottonian queenship / Simon MacLean. - First edition. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is a full-length study of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty, who dominated Continental Europe in the tenth and early eleventh centuries; presenting original arguments about the nature and origins of queenly power and seeing it as a product of the dynamics of European politics in the decades after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire.

Specialized.

9780191839887 (ebook) : No price


Queens--History--Germany--To 1500.


Germany--History--Saxon House, 919-1024.
Holy Roman Empire--History--Saxon House, 919-1024.

DD137.5

943.0220922