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Ipse sui vatis vota libellus agat. Entstehungskontexte des Liber ad honorem Augusti

  • Sebastian Brenninger

The Liber at honorem Augusti has traditionally been interpreted as a work of court historiography that was supposed to legitimize the still hardly consolidated Hohenstaufen rule in the Kingdom of Sicily. In contrast to this approach, the present article focuses on a completely different background against which the book was probably drawn up: local political conditions on the Southern Italian mainland. An in-depth analysis of hitherto largely neglected focal points of the narrative suggests that the polemical rhetoric was aimed at Archbishop Nicholas of Salerno, who had been led away in captivity at the time the Liber was created. A number of families from Salerno, who had lost in power in the course of Nicholas’ ascent, benefitted from his decline. Following Henry VI’s victory over Tancred of Lecce, these families had been able to elevate their candidate to the position of electee. With their ambitious, richly decorated manuscript, this group of families intended to oblige the imperial donee to make a counter-gift and act according to the role model as the new Solomon that was drafted on him in the Liber: Showing clemency to the givers, but strict justice towards the exiled, whose imminent return would jeopardize everything they had achieved.

  • Keywords:
  • Middle Ages,
  • 12th century,
  • Southern Italy,
  • Salerno,
  • Hohenstaufen,
  • Historiography,
  • Miniature Painting,
  • Panegyric,
  • Peter of Eboli,
  • Liber ad honorem Augusti,
  • Conrad of Querfurt,
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Sebastian Brenninger

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany - ORCID: 0009-0000-1592-9208

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  • Anno di pubblicazione: 2024
  • Pagine: 47-76

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Ipse sui vatis vota libellus agat. Entstehungskontexte des Liber ad honorem Augusti

Autori

Sebastian Brenninger

Lingua

German

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3.05

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Anno di pubblicazione

2024

Copyright

© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Informazioni bibliografiche

Titolo del libro

Storiografie italiane del XII secolo

Sottotitolo del libro

Contesti di scrittura, elaborazione e uso in una prospettiva comparata

Curatori

Alberto Cotza, Markus Krumm

Opera sottoposta a peer review

Numero di pagine

354

Anno di pubblicazione

2024

Copyright

© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0402-6

eISBN (pdf)

979-12-215-0403-3

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979-12-215-0405-7

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Reti Medievali E-Book

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2704-6362

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2704-6079

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