Otto the Great: A Biography of the First Holy Roman Emperor and Founder of the German Reich

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In 936, a twenty-four-year-old Saxon king knelt in Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen to claim an inheritance his own brothers were already plotting to steal. Within three years he'd crushed a conspiracy involving his half-brother, his full brother, and two of his most powerful dukes - with no standing army, no settled treasury, just nerve, calculation, and a readiness for violence that left no room for sentiment.This is the story of Otto the Great, the Saxon king who forged the first German Reich from a fractured, rebellious inheritance. On 10 August 955, he broke the Magyar horsemen forever at the Lechfeld. Seven years later, on 2 February 962, he knelt in St. Peter's Basilica and rose an emperor - a title no ruler north of the Alps had worn since Charlemagne, and one that would shape German politics for eight hundred years, until Napoleon dissolved it in 1806.Drawing on Widukind of Corvey, Liutprand of Cremona, and Thietmar of Merseburg, this biography follows Otto through fratricidal war, marriage alliances stretching from England to Byzantium, and a reordering of church and crown that made bishops the backbone of imperial government. Along the way: Adelaide, the imprisoned queen whose rescue won Otto a second crown, and Theophanu, the Byzantine princess whose marriage finally forced Constantinople to recognize a western emperor.Written in the tradition of Tom Holland and Mary Beard, grounded in primary sources and modern scholarship - the full account of the man who turned a kingdom fighting for survival into an empire that outlasted him by eight centuries.

発売日:	2026/9/5
言語:	英語
商品の重量:	168 g
寸法:	15.24 x 0.46 x 22.86 cm
ISBN-13:	979-8172132414
ASIN:	B0HJ421C66