Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Names; Chronology; Empress Adelheid; Countess Matilda; Contents; List of Maps; Chapter 1: Introduction: Masterful and Formidable Ladies; Lives of Two Women; Notes; Chapter 2: Kin and Kith: Keeping Friends and Placating Enemies; Who Were 'Kin' in the Middle Ages?; Who Were 'Kith' in the Middle Ages?; Adelheid and Her Kin; The Importance of Lineage; Blood Relations and Mutual Obligations; Friends and Followers; Henry I of Bavaria, Brother of Otto I; Gerbert of Aurillac; Willigis of Mainz; Spiritual Family; The Family Connections of Adelheid and Matilda Matilda's KinGrowing Up; 1. Mantua, 19 January 1072: The Beginning of Rule; 2. Going to Canossa, January 1077: A Crucial Negotiator; 3. Quistello, 9 January 1106: Mature Lordship; Family Matters; A Philosophical Salon; Spiritual Family; Pope Gregory VII; Anselm of Canterbury; Anselm of Lucca; Donizo, a Monk from Sant'Apollonio; Pope Paschal II, the Cathedral of Modena and the Bones of St Geminianus; Hugh of Cluny and Hugh of Lyons Chapter 3: Land: Building and Maintaining a Property Portfolio; Wives, Widows and Land; Empress Adelheid; Erstein, Burgundy and Selz; Countess Matilda of Tuscany; Matilda and the Rise of Comital Power; The History of Three Landholdings; The Case of Melara; The Case of Hochfelden; The Case of Canossa; The Significance of Law; Notes Chapter 4: Rule: Models of Rulership and the Tools of JusticeEarly Medieval Ottonian Kingship; Early Medieval Queenship; A Model for Queenship; Adelheid's Queenship; Countess Matilda as Victor; Ruling in Italy; A Strong Center; Holding the Roads; The Tools of Justice: Comital Courts and Their Records; The Centers of Justice; Violence and Reconciliation; Developing the Military Apparatus; Choosing Negotiation or Warfare; Domina Matilda comitissa atque ducatrix; On Bended Knee Epilogue; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Sources and Translations; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Primary and Early Sources; Secondary Sources; Index
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