in:
Stuttgart:
2006
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20 - 36 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Rüß, Hartmut info |
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| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| With Eupraxia-Adelheid for the first and only time in the history of the two countries a Russian princess got to the imperial throne of the Holy Roman Empire. Two aspects stand in the centre of the study: the discussion, completion and partial revision of biographical details, as well as a critical dispute with the prevailing negative picture of Eupraxia especially in German Middle Ages historiography. It advocates the thesis that whilst her second marriage with Emperor Henry IV was on both sides first and foremost politically motivated, the failure of the conjugal tie was due to personal as well as political reasons. Eupraxia's image as compliant and feeble instrument of the papal, antihenrician party does not, in the author's opinion, do justice to her. The breaking of taboo due to the flight out of the imperial marriage, and to her public accusations against Henry IV, in Piacenza (1095), inflicted the latter grievous political damage. As a consequence of her negative personal and political experiences in the "Latin" West, Eupraxia's return to Kiev and her entering into a monastery can be understood also as a conscious step back to her spiritual, social and cultural Eastern roots and into the bosom of the orthodox religious world. The source situation admits in many cases merely more or less well based assumptions, but no definitive answers. | |
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