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Otto III

Author: Gerd Althoff
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biographie (Descripteur de forme)
Named Person: Otto, Holy Roman Emperor; Otton, empereur du Saint Empire romain germanique; Otto, empereur germanique
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gerd Althoff
ISBN: 0271022329 9780271022321
OCLC Number: 52218293
Description: xii, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The Modern Assessment of Otto III -- Royal Rule and the Idea of the State at the End of the Tenth Century -- Central Questions and the Problem of Sources -- A Child on the Throne -- Henry the Quarrelsome and the Disturbances over the Succession -- The Regency of the Empresses -- The Beginning of Independent Rule -- The First Independent Decisions -- The First Italian Expedition -- The Encounters with Gerbert and Adalbert -- The "Revenge Expedition" to Rome and the Beginning of the "Roman Renewal" -- The Fight Against Crescentius and the Antipope -- Otto III's "Idea of Roman Renewal" in Older and Newer Scholarship -- The Journey to Gniezno -- Preconceptions and Preparations -- The Journey -- From Gniezno to Aachen -- The Last Expedition to Rome -- "Government Business" on the Way -- The Gandersheim Conflict -- The "Ingratitude" of the Romans -- The Death of Otto III -- Building Blocks for an Assessment of Otto III: Observations, Insights, Open Questions -- Demonstrative Ritual Behaviors -- "Friends" of Otto III and His Interaction with Them -- Dealing with the Heritage.
Other Titles: Otto III.
Responsibility: Gerd Althoff ; translated by Phyllis G. Jestice.
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