Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. List of Abbreviations x
7. Introduction: Absentee Authority across Medieval Europe 1
8. 1 Incarnating Authority, Exercising Authority: The Figure of the King in the Merovingian Era 21
9. 2 ‘Ubi armae ibi princeps’: Medieval Emblematics as the Real Presence of the Prince 37
10. 3 While the Bishop’s Away …: Absentee Bishops of Parma during the Investiture Contest 56
11. 4 An Inconceivable Absence: Usurpers and Illegitimate Rulers in the Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England, from the Late Thirteenth to the Early Fifteenth Centuries 78
12. 5 Local Loyalty and Absentee Authority in Thirteenth-Century Normandy: The Evidence of the Querimoniae Normannorum (1247) 92
13. 6 Representation and Authority in Thirteenth-Century England and Gascony 112
14. 7 Internal Exiles: Exclusion from the Fourteenth-Century English Court and Kingdom 132
15. 8 ‘Si grant charté a Paris … par defaulté du roy’: Governmental Practice and the Customary Geography of the Absence and Presence of the King in France (1364–1525) 153
16. 9 Was the Couple a Palliative to the Absence of the Prince? The Political Role and Influence of Margaret of Flanders during the Reign of Philip the Bold, Duke and Count of Burgundy (1384–1404) 171
17. 10 Guardian – Lieutenant – Governor: Absentee Monarchy and Proxy Power in Scotland’s Long Fourteenth Century 191
18. 11 Absentee Authority in Late Medieval Iceland, as Viewed from the Literary Sources 219
19. 12 Representatives of Kings and ‘Kings’ as Representatives: Authority and its Representation in Professional Groups in Late Medieval and Early Modern France – the Example of the King of Minstrels and of the King of Mercers 240
20. Index 255