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- Bergqvist, Kim, 1986-
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Osämja och fiendskap mellan kungar och stormän : Lojalitetskonflikter och politiska värden i Norge och Sverige, c. 1250–1370
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Ingår i: Collegium Medievale. - 0801-9282 .- 2387-6700. ; 32:2, s. 171-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses different paradigms for analysis of conflicts between magnates and kings in the period c. 1250–1370 in Norway and Sweden. During the past few decades, the study of feuds and the idea of the survival of a feud culture into the Late Middle Ages or Early Modern period has been prevalent in scholarship on medieval Scandinavia. Here it is argued that conflicts between kings and magnates in the period under study were perceived as being of a different order than conflicts between individual or groups of magnates, both by kings and by magnates themselves. Magnates were protective of their right of resistance against unlawful kings, and increasingly presented themselves as protectors of the common good, and representatives of the community of the realm. Kings, meanwhile, began to label any (armed) resistance to their initiatives as treason, leaning on Roman law. These circumstances should make scholars wary of ignoring the constitutional and legal ramifications of aristocratic resistance.
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- Charpentier Ljungqvist, Fredrik
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Bannlyst kung av Guds nåde : Maktlegitimering och kungaideologi i Sverris saga
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Ingår i: Collegium Medievale: Tverrfaglig tidsskrift for middelalderforskning. - 0801-9282. ; 21, s. 3-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A Divine King Excommunicated: Legitimisation of Power and Ideology of Kingship in Sverris SagaThis article investigates how Sverrir Sigurðarson, ruler of Norway between 1177 and 1202, is ideologically legitimised as king in the biography Sverris saga. In previous research, the perception that Sverrir is portrayed as a Christian rex iustus has competed with the perception that Sverrir is depicted as a traditional Old Norse warrior king, who gains his legitimacy through his military successes. This article demonstrates that the rex iustus idea is central in the saga when it comes to legitimising Sverrir, and that his seizure of power is also placed in the salvation-historical worldview of the time. Fully in accordance with the way contemporary continental European kings legitimised their claims to power, Sverrir’s royal power is justified in the saga through a combination of the notion that God has chosen Sverrir as king and the notion of a line of succession to the throne through paternal blood ties. The article also demonstrates that the saga, like the polemic pamphlet A Speech against the Bishops (Ett tal mot biskoparna), propagates against the perception that the Church is above the royal power and dismisses the Church’s excommunication of Sverrir as unjust and invalid.
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- Harrison, Dick
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The Duke and the Archangel: A Hypothetical Model of Early State Integration in Southern Italy through the Cult of Saints
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Ingår i: Collegium Medievale. - 0801-9282. ; 6:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The early medieval cult of saints has been the object of many illuminating studies during the past decades. However, one aspect in need of more research is the role of the cults in the building of early states in Europe, a phenomenon that is often, somewhat erroneously, referred to as the cult of national saints. The saints were powerful assets in the attempts of kings, dukes and bishops at achieving social integration. This article analyses the situation in the duchy of Benevento in southern Italy, home of the important pilgrimage site of Monte Sant'Angelo and of the relics of the church of St Sophia in Benevento. It is demonstrated how the dukes and princes of Benevento consciously used various religious elements in society in order to strengthen their own position. In the ninth century, as the local bishops grew stronger, the saints gradually became associated with them rather than with the princes. The cult of saints was an important part in the creation and manifestation of political influence.
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