False Imperial Forefathers? Alfonso III of Asturias-León, Oswald of Northumbria and the Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon Imperial Phenomena

dc.centroUniversidad San Pablo-CEU
dc.contributor.authorCollamati, Giovanni
dc.contributor.otherUniversidad San Pablo-CEU. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comunicación.
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-19T18:42:31Z
dc.date.available2023-12-19T18:42:31Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-06
dc.description.abstractDuring the 10th century, the title imperatorappears in some Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon charters in reference to the sovereigns of Asturias and León and those of the new kingdom of England. Alphonse III of Asturias and León and Oswald of Northumbria are often considered the initiators or inspirers of these peculiar phenomena. The first Hispanic “imperial charters” seem to date back to the time of Alphonse III, while Oswald is described as imperator totius Britanniaein the Vita sancti Columbaeby Adomnán of Iona. This article aims to review the actual relevance of these two figures in the later use of imperial terminology. On the one hand, the only Alphonse’s 'imperial charters' whose authenticity is beyond doubt date from the time of his son Ordoño II, while,on the other hand, the dominant image of Oswald in 10th-century Britain was not that of Adomnán, but that reported by Bede, in which the imperial title does not appearen_EN
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dc.identifier.citationCollamati, G. (2023). False Imperial Forefathers? Alfonso III of Asturias-León, Oswald of Northumbria and the Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon Imperial Phenomena. I Quaderni Del m.æ.S. - Journal of Mediæ Ætatis Sodalicium, 21, 111–124. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2533-2325/17120es_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.6092/issn.2533-2325/17120
dc.identifier.issn2533-2325
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10637/14726
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDipartimento di Scienze Dell’Educazione «Giovanni Maria Bertin» – Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.cchttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subjectImperatoren_EN
dc.subjectOswald of Northumbriaen_EN
dc.subjectAlphonse III of Asturiasen_EN
dc.subjectRoyal Diplomasen_EN
dc.titleFalse Imperial Forefathers? Alfonso III of Asturias-León, Oswald of Northumbria and the Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon Imperial Phenomenaen_EN
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