Transregnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century : Jörg Peltzer and Nicholas Vincent (Proceedings of the British Academy)

Peltzer, Jörg (EDT)/ Vincent, Nicholas (EDT)

The British Academy（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781836245919

Full Description

Transregnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century explores a wide-spread European phenomenon: rulership over multiple kingdoms, or a kingdom in combination with major non-royal lordships elsewhere. Perceptions of royal authority and kingly sovereignty changed significantly during the thirteenth century, and as the role played by kingdoms as sovereign polities was strengthened, the framework for transregnal kingship shifted. This volumes investigates the consequences, examining the theory, perception and administrative practices of transregnal kingship. Intended to provide a coherent picture that itself may facilitate comparisons, the work focuses on four distinct, but significantly intertwined polities: The Empire, France, The Angevin Empire, and the Papacy. Despite its frequent occurrence, transregnal kingship played a relatively small role in contemporary political thought, and transregnal practice took a great variety of forms, showing rulers and the ruled adapting to circumstance rather than pursuing any pre-conceived grand strategy. Meanwhile, the ruler's frequent physical absence provoked the creation of multiple forms of vice-regal power. In the Empire, it also led to an increased use of arbitration as a means to solve disputes at regional level. Finally, an analysis of architecture and the built environment suggests that such things exhibit a fascinating combination of the political and the merely fashionable.

Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Preface

Introduction: Transregnal Kingship JÖRG PELTZER AND NICHOLAS VINCENT

Part I Theory 1. Transregnal Kingship in Thirteenth-Century Political Thought FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD



A Special Case? The Papacy in the Early Thirteenth Century BARBARA BOMBI

Part II Imperium 3. Ruling Germany and the Empire: The Thirteenth Century MARTIN KAUFHOLD



'Profitemur imperium nichil prorsus iuris habere in regno Sicilie': Relations between the Empire and Sicily during the Reign of Frederick II LIOBA GEIS


Perceptions of Transregnal Imperial Rule in Thirteenth-Century Germany LEN SCALES



Part III Mediterranean Worlds 6. The Fractured Empire of Charles I of Anjou DAVID ABULAFIA



Holy Opportunity: Transregnal Lordship in Three Crusading Families G. E. M. LIPPIATT


The Many Sicilies? 'Angevin' Architecture at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century with Notes on Robert Willis's Remarks (1835) PAULA VITOLO



Part IV England and France 9. The Plantagenet 'Empire' in the Thirteenth Century: Survival, Reorganisation and Reorientation DANIEL POWER



Royal Inquests in Western Gascony during the Reign of Henry III (1228-1255) FRÉDÉRIC BOUTOULLE


Imposition and Appropriation? Architecture, the Associated Arts, and the Presentation of Rulership in the Shell of the Angevin Empire, 1200-1300 LINDY GRANT



Part V Crowned with Many Crowns 12. A Different Path? The Single Crown of Louis IX WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN

Index