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Author | : Michele K. Spike |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0865652813 |
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“[This] marvelous biography peels back layer upon layer of previous myth to render a startling new portrait of the countess. . . . Absorbing.” —Publishers Weekly Tuscan Countess is a fast-paced and colorful exploration of the life of Matilda of Canossa (c. 1046–1115), a woman who loved a pope and was loved by him, successfully defied the Holy Roman Emperor, and changed the map of Europe. Matilda of Canossa, the “Great Countess,” was a remarkable woman. Her personal power was so extraordinary that even centuries after her death she became the first woman to be interred in St. Peter's Basilica. She is best remembered for her role in the conflict between the papacy and the Holy Roman emperor, the climax of which took place at her castle of Canossa. This unique biography is also a journal of the author's travels through contemporary Tuscany as she explores the palaces where Matilda held court, the blood-stained plains on which her soldiers battled, the churches and cathedrals she endowed, and the fortified aeries where she sought refuge. Readers will be swept along on this engrossing journey retracing the steps of a courageous and brilliant woman.
Author | : Michele K. Spike |
Publisher | : Vendome Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-09-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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This is a fast-paced and colorful exploration of the life of Matilda of Canossa (c. 10461115), the woman who loved a pope and was loved by him, successfully defied the Holy Roman Emperor, and changed the map of Europe. A new kind of history, this biography also carries the flavor of present-day Italy. Matilda of Canossa, the Great Countess
Author | : Mrs. Mary E. Huddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nora Duff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kathleen McGowan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1471105415 |
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Once there was a gospel written in Christ's own hand: a treasure of almost unimaginable magnitude, referred to by the Cathars of medieval France as The Book of Love... Fresh from her successful search for the long-hidden scrolls written by Mary Magdelene, journalist Maureen Pascal now finds herself on the trail of the legendary lost gospel known as the Book of Love. But just as there were those who would stop at nothing to seize and suppress the Book of Love seven centuries ago, so there are those today who are equally determined that its radical message should never be revealed. In a race across Italy and France, new dangers await Maureen and her lover Sinclair as they begin to uncover secrets and shine new light on the hidden corners of Christianity. Combining expert research with dazzling plot twists, The Book of Love is sure to thrill readers as they follow Maureen's search for clues through some of the world's greatest art, architecture and history, until a potentially fatal encounter reveals the Book of Love to her -- and to us.
Author | : Mrs. Mary E. Huddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David J. Hay |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719073595 |
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This is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defense of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy Roman Emperor and turned the tide of the first great war between Church and State. The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa adopts an interdisciplinary perspective towards the abundant and diverse sources for her life, reading the narrative sources against the letters, polemics, diplomas and canonical collections. It combines these to reconstruct Matilda’s campaigns in painstaking detail, and reconsiders the limits of medieval women’s military agency in light of her demonstrable successes. Both scholarly and accessible, all Latin quotations in the book are translated and the introduction provides a primer on the Investiture Contest. This work will be of greatest value to specialists in medieval gender, military and church history.
Author | : Mary E. Huddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mrs. Mary E. Huddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Uta-Renate Blumenthal |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812200160 |
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"This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be divorced from reality, especially not in the Middle Ages. I present them, therefore, in their contemporary political, social, and cultural context."—from the Preface