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Die Geschichte schreibt den Sieger

Gefährliches Wissen und der Kampf um das Narrativ in den Kontroversschriften um 1100
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Abstract

This article examines how participants tried to gain or establish interpretive sovereignty in the conflicts that unravelled around 1100 in the course of the socalled ‚Investiture Controversy‘. In doing so, it examines how the ‚Streitschriften‘ dealt with a central document of the disputes: the legitimization of the second anathema of King Henry IV by Gregory VII in his letter to Bishop Herman of Metz dated on March 15th, 1081. Using two treatises, the ‚Liber de unitate‘ and the ‚Tractatus de regia potestate‘, it is exemplarily shown how writers around 1100 could operate in order to fight ‚false knowledge‘ and to gain interpretive sovereignty over knowledge and authorities themselves.

Abstract

This article examines how participants tried to gain or establish interpretive sovereignty in the conflicts that unravelled around 1100 in the course of the socalled ‚Investiture Controversy‘. In doing so, it examines how the ‚Streitschriften‘ dealt with a central document of the disputes: the legitimization of the second anathema of King Henry IV by Gregory VII in his letter to Bishop Herman of Metz dated on March 15th, 1081. Using two treatises, the ‚Liber de unitate‘ and the ‚Tractatus de regia potestate‘, it is exemplarily shown how writers around 1100 could operate in order to fight ‚false knowledge‘ and to gain interpretive sovereignty over knowledge and authorities themselves.

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