Name: Cosmas of Prague
Author: Wolverton, Lisa
ISBN: 9780813226910


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	Cosmas of Prague by Lisa Wolverton Catholic University of America Press, 2014 Cloth: 978-0-8132-2691-0 \| eISBN: 978-0-8132-2692-7 Library of Congress Classification DB2081.67133.W65 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 943.71021 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| TOC ABOUT THIS BOOK Please fill in marketing copy TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Contents List of Maps, Figures, Table Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Cosmas The Chronicle Interpreting Cosmas and His Chronicle 2. The Historian's Craft Raw Materials Analyzing a Core Sample Narrativity and Coherence Conclusion 3. A Pessiimistic Theory of Power The Nature of Politics Power and Predation A Fearsome Archetype Contemporary Predators A Word about Audience 4. Gendered Politics and Women's Voices Politics Made Masculine The Apolitical Voice A Feminized Church? Conclusion Epilogue: Matilda of Tuscany 5. Characterizing a Decadent Political Culture Queen Money and the German Emperor The Vršovici and Other Inimici Familiares Wars Worse Than Civil, or the Curse of Fratricide 6. The Birth of a National History In the Beginning: The Land Territorial and Ethnic Instabilities Unity of Will 7. Conclusion Power and the People Bibliography Index See other books on: Bohemia (Czech Republic) \| Medieval \| Prague \| To 1526 \| Wolverton, Lisa See other titles from Catholic University of America Press

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