The favor of friends : : intercession and aristocratic politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe / / Sean Gilsdorf.

The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration of intercession—aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of another—within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this pro...

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Superior document:Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, Volume 23
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; Volume 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Understanding Intercession: Sources and Approaches / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Courting Intercession: Amici, Allies, and Advocacy / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Making Intercession: Companions, Kin, and Consorts / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Embodying Intercession: The Mediatory Politics of the Episcopacy / Sean Gilsdorf
  • The End(s) of Intercession: Consolidations and Conclusions / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Appendix 1 Diplomatic intercession, Conrad I to Conrad II (911–1039) / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Appendix 2 Excluded diplomata, Conrad I to Conrad II / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Bibliography / Sean Gilsdorf
  • Index / Sean Gilsdorf.