Having the King-Losing the King

Ehlers, Caspar

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“…An additional function of the iter was economic; John Bernhardt's comprehensive study of the king's iter and Ottonian royal monasteries effectively demonstrates the economic importance of the itinerary to the crown, as well as how the establishment and patronage of royal monasteries, where the king and his entourage expected hospitality, was a part of Ottonian royal policy (1993:75‐84). Research by Thomas Zotz () and Caspar Ehlers () also assert the effectiveness of the iter as a method of rule.…”

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The governance of Ottonian Germany in historiographical perspective

Wangerin

2017

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The historiographic tradition for the tenth-century Saxon Ottonian dynasty has without doubt been influenced by Germany's more recent past. Events in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shaped the worldviews of historians both within Germany and without. These events also had a direct effect on the methodologies employed by those historians in studying medieval Germany, and helped to suppress interest in the field by non-German historians.But in the last decades of the twentieth century, there was a kind of watershed for Ottonian studies. Historians who remain influential yet today began to ask new questions and approach the field with new methodologies that took work on the Ottonians in new directions. Additionally, these new approaches have stimulated lively and often contentious debates. There is much about Ottonian government that continues to puzzle scholars. This article provides a sketch of some of the main institutions of Ottonian governance, using these as a way to introduce the reader to the historiography and historiographical debates in the field.

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