Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c.9361075 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 21)

"In examining the relationship between the royal monasteries in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany and the German monarchs, this book assimilates a great deal of European scholarship on a central problem - that of the realities and structures of power. It focuses on the practical aspects of governing without a capital and while constantly in motion, and on the payments and services which monasteries provided to the king and which in turn supported the king's travel economically and politically. Royal-monastic relations are investigated in the context of the 'itinerant kingship' of the period to determine how this relationship functioned in practice. It emerges that German rulers did in fact make much greater use of their royal monasteries than has hitherto been recognised."-- Provided by publisher 1. German Kingship And Royal Monasteries: The Historical And Historiographical Context -- Ottonian History And Government -- The Ottonians And The Church -- Ottonian Foreign Policy -- 2. Itinerant Kingship, Royal Monasteries And The Servitium Regis -- Itinerant Kingship And The Structure Of The Realm -- Royal Monasteries: Problems Of Definition -- Servitium Regis: The Historiographical Problem -- 3. Servitium Regis And Monastic Property -- Charters And Monastic Property Division -- Development Of Monastic Property Divisions -- The West Frankish Realm -- The East Frankish And German Experience -- Servitium Regis And Abbatial Property -- 4. Monasteries In The Saxon Heartland -- Definition And Delineation -- Quedlinburg (walbeck) -- Gandersheim (eschwege) -- St Maurice At Magdeburg -- Minor Royal Monasteries And Convents Of Saxony: Berge, Nienburg, Alsleben, Drubeck, Gernrode (frose) And Nordhausen -- 5. Monasteries In Westphalia -- Westphalia As A Transit Zone -- The 'hellweg' -- Werden -- Essen -- Corvey -- Royal Convents In Westphalia And Engern -- 6. Monasteries In The Saxon-hessian Border Region -- River Basins As A Geopolitical Setting -- Helmarshausen -- Hilwartshausen -- Kaufungen -- 7. Monasteries In Hesse And Thuringia -- Geopolitical Structure Of Hesse And Thuringia -- Hersfeld And Fulda: Background And Development -- Hersfeld And Fulda -- Hersfeld (memleben) -- Fulda -- Hersfeld And Fulda: Grants Of Sovereign Rights. John W. Bernhardt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

This book examines the relationship between the royal monasteries in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany and the German monarchs. It focuses on the practical aspects of governing without a capital and while constantly in motion, and on the payments and services that monasteries provided to the king and that in turn supported the king's travel economically and politically. It concludes that German rulers did in fact make much greater use of their royal monasteries than has hitherto been recognized.

This book explores and analyses the political, economic and religious relations between the royal monastic institutions in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany and the Ottonian and early Salian monarchs.