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Author Wolverton, Lisa, author.

Title Cosmas of Prague : narrative, classicism, politics / Lisa Wolverton.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages .)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, Table""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Cosmas""; ""The Chronicle""; ""Interpreting Cosmas and His Chronicle""; ""2. The Historian's Craft""; ""Raw Materials""; ""Analyzing a Core Sample""; ""Narrativity and Coherence""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. A Pessiimistic Theory of Power""; ""The Nature of Politics""; ""Power and Predation""; ""A Fearsome Archetype""; ""Contemporary Predators""; ""A Word about Audience""; ""4. Gendered Politics and Women's Voices""; ""Politics Made Masculine""; ""The Apolitical Voice""
""A Feminized Church?""""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue: Matilda of Tuscany""; ""5. Characterizing a Decadent Political Culture""; ""Queen Money and the German Emperor""; ""The Vršovici and Other Inimici Familiares""; ""Wars Worse Than Civil, or the Curse of Fratricide""; ""6. The Birth of a National History""; ""In the Beginning: The Land""; ""Territorial and Ethnic Instabilities""; ""Unity of Will""; ""7. Conclusion""; ""Power and the People""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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Subject Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?-1125 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?-1125.
Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?-1125. Chronica Boemorum.
Chronica Boemorum (Cosmas, of Prague)
Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- History -- To 1526.
Chronological Term To 1526
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813226910 0813226910 (DLC) 2014024459
ISBN 0813226929 (electronic book)
9780813226927 (electronic book)
9780813226910 (cloth alkaline paper)
0813226910 (cloth alkaline paper)