Otto III - Softcover

Althoff, Gerd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271024011 ISBN 13: 9780271024011

Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Otto III (980-1002) was one of the most powerful rulers in Europe in the late tenth century. He is also one of the most enigmatic. The son of the German emperor Otto II and the Greek princess Theophanu, he came to the throne at the age of three and was only twenty-one years old at the time of his death. Nonetheless, his reign had a lasting impact on both Germany and Italy for generations. In this book, Gerd Althoff provides a much-needed biography of this fascinating figure. In the process, he uses Otto's life to explain how in practice early medieval kingship worked.

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About the Authors

Gerd Althoff is Professor of History at the University of Münster. He has written numerous works on tenth-century Germany, including, most recently, the book Die Ottonen (2000), which examines kingship more generally in the Ottonian dynasty. This is his first book to be translated into English.

Phyllis G. Jestice is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southern Mississippi and the author of Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271024011
• ISBN 13: 9780271024011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228