Contents
Preface ........................................................................................................................... viii
Abbreviations ................................................................................................................. vi
Maps
The World of Mathilda and Adelheid ............................................................ xi
Ottonian Saxony ............................................................................................... xii
Burgundy and Northern Italy ........................................................................ xiii
Genealogical Tables
The Liudolfings ................................................................................................ xiv
The Burgundian Rudolfings .......................................................................... xv
Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 1
I. The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid ............................................................ 2
Tenth-Century Europe ........................................................................... 2
Queens and Queenship in the Early Middle Ages ............................. 9
II. The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid .......................................................... 18
Origins and Authorship........................................................................ 19
Monasticism in the Lives and the EA .................................................. 29
The Tradition of Sacred Biography..................................................... 37
Tradition Remade: Marriage, Queenship,
and Royal Sanctity .................................................................... 44
Holy Mother: The Lives and the Politics of Sanctity ........................ 56
Holy Ruler: The EA and the Sanctity of Politics ............................... 71
Afterlife ................................................................................................... 76
III. The Translations .......................................................................................... 78
Notes ................................................................................................................... 88
(Anonymous) The "Older Life" of Queen Mathilda ................................................... 117
Notes ................................................................................................................. 137
(Anonymous) The "Later Life" of Queen Mathilda .................................................... 154
Notes ................................................................................................................. 199
Odilo of Cluny, The Epitaph of the August Lord Adelheid ........................................ 210
Notes ................................................................................................................. 227
Appendix 1: Widukind of Corvey on Queen Mathilda ............................................... 244
Notes ................................................................................................................. 246
Appendix 2: Mathilda and the Stirps Widukindi ..................................................... 247
Notes ................................................................................................................. 257
Bibliography ................................................................................................................ 262
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Matilda, Queen, consort of Henry I, King of Germany, ca, 895-968, Adelheid, Empress, consort of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, ca, 931-999, Queens Germany Biography, Christian saints Germany Biography, Germany History Henry I, 919-936 Sources, Germany History Otto I, 936-973 Sources