Otto III

Contents......Page 6
Translator’s Note......Page 8
Preface to the German Edition......Page 10
Preface to the English Edition......Page 12
The Modern Assessment of Otto III......Page 14
Royal Rule and the Idea of the State at the End of the Tenth Century......Page 29
Central Questions and the Problem of Sources......Page 36
Henry the Quarrelsome and the Disturbances over the Succession......Page 42
The Regency of the Empresses......Page 53
The First Independent Decisions......Page 65
The First Italian Expedition......Page 72
The Encounters with Gerbert and Adalbert......Page 78
The Fight Against Crescentius and the Antipope......Page 85
Otto III’s “Idea of Roman Renewal” in Older and Newer Scholarship......Page 94
Preconceptions and Preparations......Page 103
The Journey......Page 110
From Gniezno to Aachen......Page 116
“Government Business” on the Way......Page 121
The Gandersheim Conflict......Page 125
The “Ingratitude” of the Romans......Page 131
The Death of Otto III......Page 139
Demonstrative Ritual Behaviors......Page 145
“Friends” of Otto III and His Interaction with Them......Page 153
Dealing with the Heritage......Page 159
Abbreviations......Page 162
introduction......Page 164
chapter 1: a child on the throne......Page 167
chapter 2: the beginning of independent rule......Page 174
chapter 3: the “revenge expedition” to rome and the beginning of the “roman renewal”......Page 178
chapter 4: the journey to gniezno......Page 182
chapter 5: the last expedition to rome......Page 188
chapter 6: building blocks for an assessment of otto iii......Page 194
Primary Sources......Page 198
Secondary Sources......Page 202
Index......Page 222