Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture: England and Germany, c.1215 - c.1250 (Medieval Culture and Society)

252 Pages·2007·0.92 MB·English

by  Bjorn Weiler

Kingship, Rebellion and
Political Culture
England and Germany, c. 1215–c. 1250
Björn Weiler
Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture
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Kingship, Rebellion and
Political Culture
England and Germany, c. 1215–c. 1250
Björn Weiler
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Abbreviations viii
Introduction x
Part I Kingdoms in Turmoil – The Structures and
Framework of Revolt
1 To Be King in Name as well as Deed: the Revolt of
Henry(VII)inGermany(1234–5) 3
2 TheMarshalRebellioninEngland(1233–4) 11
3 RebellioninContext 22
Part II The Ideals and Norms of Politics
4 Loyalty,JusticeandHonour:Henry(VII)andFrederickII 39
5 Justice,LoyaltyandtheAbsenceofHonour:FrederickIIand
Henry(VII)asSeenbyTheirContemporaries 53
6 LoyaltiesTrueandFalse:PoliticalValuesinEngland 76
Part III The Ways and Means of Politics
7 CreatingaPublic 105
8 AddressingthePublic:Rituals,GesturesandCharters 130
9 Townsmen,ClergyandKnights:thePublicinPolitics 151
Conclusion 172
Notes 179
Bibliography 215
Index 232
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Acknowledgements
ThisbookwasbegunatthesuggestionofTimothyReuter,andhisadvice,
counsel and criticism have been sorely missed. Michael Clanchy and
Nick Vincent have been most encouraging and supportive throughout
thevariousstagesofthisproject;MiriRubinandBobStaceyexemplary
editors; and Michael Strang at Palgrave a most patient publisher. Haki
Antonsson,LenScalesandNicholasVincenthavereadallorpartofthe
manuscript, and I am grateful for their encouraging comments. Parts
of this book were presented to conferences and seminars at Bamberg,
Bergen, Cambridge, Durham, Leeds, London, Paris, and St Andrews,
and I am thankful for the many criticisms and suggestions received
on these occasions. Bill Aird, Haki Antonsson, Sverre Bagge, Martin
Brett, Philippe Buc, David Carpenter, Stephen Church, David d’Avray,
Christoph Egger, Patrick Geary, Deborah Gerish, Piotr Gorecki, Sarah
Hamilton, Frédérique Lachaud, Peter Lambert, Sarah Lambert, Simon
MacLean, Leidulf Melve, Huw Pryce, Frank Rexroth, Theo Riches,
Len Scales and Nicholas Vincent made for an at times repeat, but
always instructive, critical and stimulating audience. Without their
advice, collective wisdom and common sense, errors would have been
evenmorenumerous,misreadingswilderandinterpretationsmorefar-
fetched.Forwhatweaknessesremain,Ialonetakeresponsibility.
This book would still be unfinished without a year’s research leave,
funded by the University of Wales Aberystwyth, and the Arts and
Humanities Research Council, and I am grateful for the opportunity
to work in so concentrated and uninterrupted a fashion. Research for
this book was made easier by the patient forbearance of Jeff Davies;
the indefatigable services of Steve Mahoney and his colleagues; a
generous supply of photocopies from Frank Rexroth and Christoph
Egger; and a period of prolonged access to the holdings of Cambridge
University Library. The latter came about through a Visiting Fellow-
ship at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Human-
ities, and I would like to thank Ludmilla Jordanova and the staff
at Wolfson College and CRASSH for their support and hospitality,
and for what proved to be an intellectually stimulating and academ-
ically most productive period. While the book was completed at
Cambridge, a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for Medieval Studies at
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Acknowledgements vii
the Universitet i Bergen allowed for final revisions to be made and an
opportunitytotestoutsomeofthebook’sideas.
Stephan Schmuck, Peter Lambert, Richard Rathbone, Gerry Hughes,
James Vaughan, Martyn Powell, Jeff Davies, Robert Harrison, Phillipp
Schofield,AndrewPriestandRogerPriceprovidedmuchneededintellec-
tualandsocialroutesofescape,mostlytotheChampionontheThames
inCambridgeortheGlengowerHotelclosertohome(withanhonour-
able mention to Haki Antonsson and the ‘Office’ in Bergen), but all
themorefruitfulonesforit.Lastbutbynomeansleast,mentionmust
be made of the British Academy funded research network on ‘Political
Culture in Norman and Angevin England (1066–272) in Comparative
Perspective’. Its meetings, with their easy and free-flowing exchange
of ideas, and atmosphere of friendly yet rigorous discussion, provided
a much-appreciated (and eagerly anticipated) opportunity to debate,
argue,thinkandexplore.Thatallthiscouldbedonewithoutneedingto
worryaboutoutputandoutputevaluationcriteria,madethisaproject
inwhichtohavebeeninvolvedhasbeenbothapleasureandaprivilege.
Thecoverillustration,fromMatthewParis’ChronicaMajora,hasbeen
reprinted with kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus
ChristiCollege,Cambridge(ParkerLibraryMs16,fol.56v).
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Abbreviations
AM Annales Monastici, ed. H.R. Luard, 5 vols, RS
(London,1864–9)
CChR CalendaroftheCharterRollsPreservedinthePublic
RecordOffice,6vols(London,1903–27)
CLR CalendarofLiberateRollsfortheReignofHenryIII,
6vols(London,1916–64)
CM The Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, ed.
H.R.Luard,7vols,RS(London,1872–4)
Constitutiones ConstitutionesetActapublicaImperatorumetRegum,
1198–1272 1198–1272,ed.L.Weiland,MGHLegesSectioIV,2
(Hanover,1896)
CPR CalendarofPatentRollsoftheReignofHenryIII
PreservedinthePublicRecordOffice,6vols(London,
1901–13)
CR CloseRollsoftheReignofHenryIIIPreservedinthe
PublicRecordOffice,14vols(London,1902–38)
DA DeutschesArchivzurErforschungdesMittelalters
EHR EnglishHistoricalReview
HB Historia Diplomatica Friderici Secundi, ed.
A.Huillard-Breholles,7volsin12(Paris,1852–61)
HZ HistorischeZeitschrift
JMH JournalofMedievalHistory
MGH MonumentaGermaniaeHistorica
SS ScriptoresRerumGermanicarum
SSrGsep.ed ScriptoresRerumGermanicaruminUsumScholarum
separatismediti
NS NovaSeria/NewSeries
RI Regesta Imperii: Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches
unterPhilipp,OttoIV.,FriedrichII.,Heinrich(VII),
ConradIV.,HeinrichRaspe,WilhelmundRichard,
1198–1272,ed.J.F.Böhmer,E.Winkelmannand
J.Ficker,3vols(Innsbruck,1881–1901)
RIS RerumItalicarumScriptores
RS RollsSeries:RerumBritannicarumMediiAeviiScriptores
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Abbreviations ix
RW Rogeri de Wendover Chronica sive Flores Historiarum, ed.
H.O.Coxe, 5 vols, English Historical Society (London,
1841–4)
TCE Thirteenth Century England, ed. P. Coss and S.D. Lloyd
(1983–95); R.H. Britnell, R. Frame and M.C. Prestwich
(1997–2005);J.Burton,P.R.SchofieldandB.Weiler(2007–)
TRHS TransactionsoftheRoyalHistoricalSociety
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