Swabia and the Swabian Nobility during the Ottonian Age: in the Center of Europe, on the Fringe of an Empire
Anastasia Anufrieva
The article explores what was a place of the Swabian duchy and swabian nobility in state Saxon royal imperial Ottonian dynasty. There are considered notions about Swabia three narrative sources age (the historical work Adalbert Magdeburg, two biographies church hierarchs — Ulrich, bishop Augsburg Witigowo, abbot Reichenau). traced specifics representation this topic during reigns Otto I (936—973), II (973—983) III (983—1002) gradual transformation from position on periphery empire to deeper integration into state. Such an “incomplete integration” may be explained not so much by rulers’ disinterest territory as concrete circumstances (first all, dynastical troubles). clerical elite court environment began primarily with monasteries, episcopal centers. This shows that it Carolingian tradition large part continued influence strategy German emperors Swabia.
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