Transregnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century

Jörg Peltzer, Nicholas Vincent (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2025
The British Academy (Verlag)
978-1-83624-591-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Jörg Peltzer is Professor of Comparative History in a European Perspective with a focus on the late Middle Ages at Heidelberg University. He is also a British Academy Global Professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (2021–2025) and a member of Academia Europaea. Nicholas Vincent is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Proceedings of the British Academy ; 275
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-83624-591-2 / 1836245912
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-591-9 / 9781836245919
Zustand	Neuware