The cults of the German emperor Henry II (973-1024) and his spouse Cunigunde (c. 980-1033) had been established for three centuries when their images entered the symbolic language utilized by Frederick III of Habsburg (r. 1440-1493). In this article, I analyze several visual representations devoted to Saint Henry and Saint Cunigunde, all commissioned at the end of the fifteenth century by or under the auspices of Emperor Frederick III and his successor Maximilian I. These items of medieval heritage, namely the murals from Aachen Cathedral and two altarpieces from Nuremberg and Flanders, have not previously been analyzed in relation to each other in the context of the political communication of the late-medieval Holy Roman Empire. In this pa...
The so-called “Heinrichstafel”, which has been attributed to the “Master of the legend of St. Barbar...
The article investigates crowns, garments and other symbols of sovereignty characterising the Kings ...
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, two major schisms between the papacy and the empire erup...
The Gregorian reform movement in general, and events at Canossa in 1077 in particular, have been cre...
The coronation of Emperor Frederick III as King of Lombardy-Veneto and his coronation as Holy Roman ...
In my thesis I discuss a very influential and widely accepted thesis on the resacralisation of the H...
Rudolf II passionate appetite for works by celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer’s led to an aggre...
On March 16th 1452, on the Thursday before Mid-Lent Sunday, the Romans and their guests witnessed a ...
The Polish version of the article was published in “Roczniki Humanistyczne,” vol. 64 (2016), issue 4...
My dissertation, “Rex Francorum—imperator Augustus—gratia Dei rex: The ‘Language’ of Authority in th...
The Sacred Majesty of the King : Images of a carolingian Sovereign. The body of works examined cons...
Throughout the Middle Ages the French and the Germans have vied with each other in their attempts to...
This article examines the influence of Roman imperial symbols of authority on Carolingian coinage. D...
This article traces the Frankish legacy in the early years of Frederick Barbarossa’s reign, from his...
In the last decades, historians and art historians have created an active historiographical debate a...
The so-called “Heinrichstafel”, which has been attributed to the “Master of the legend of St. Barbar...
The article investigates crowns, garments and other symbols of sovereignty characterising the Kings ...
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, two major schisms between the papacy and the empire erup...
The Gregorian reform movement in general, and events at Canossa in 1077 in particular, have been cre...
The coronation of Emperor Frederick III as King of Lombardy-Veneto and his coronation as Holy Roman ...
In my thesis I discuss a very influential and widely accepted thesis on the resacralisation of the H...
Rudolf II passionate appetite for works by celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer’s led to an aggre...
On March 16th 1452, on the Thursday before Mid-Lent Sunday, the Romans and their guests witnessed a ...
The Polish version of the article was published in “Roczniki Humanistyczne,” vol. 64 (2016), issue 4...
My dissertation, “Rex Francorum—imperator Augustus—gratia Dei rex: The ‘Language’ of Authority in th...
The Sacred Majesty of the King : Images of a carolingian Sovereign. The body of works examined cons...
Throughout the Middle Ages the French and the Germans have vied with each other in their attempts to...
This article examines the influence of Roman imperial symbols of authority on Carolingian coinage. D...
This article traces the Frankish legacy in the early years of Frederick Barbarossa’s reign, from his...
In the last decades, historians and art historians have created an active historiographical debate a...
The so-called “Heinrichstafel”, which has been attributed to the “Master of the legend of St. Barbar...
The article investigates crowns, garments and other symbols of sovereignty characterising the Kings ...
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, two major schisms between the papacy and the empire erup...