Ottonian

Otto, with the able assistance of his brother Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, began a cultural revival (the so-called Ottonian Renaissance) in the manner of Charlemagne; late in life, he learned to read, but not to speak, Latin; Bruno knew Greek.

928 2001

In the so-called Ottonian renaissance, however, women were chiefly concerned, led by women of the royal family: Mathilda, Gerberga,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

The Cathedral Cross, the largest Ottonian Cross still existing in the German countries from the 11th century, in a precious casing of the 18th century.

Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum 2009

The show also includes works from the Carolingian and Ottonian periods, such as the fragment of a relief from the court school of Charles the Great.

Time Off Europe Calendar 2007

His policy was a return to the Ottonian habit of using the Church as a major source of revenue; simony was open, and the reforming party appealed to Rome against Henry.

d. Germany 2001

In Germany, despite the efforts of the Ottonian and Salian kings, feudalism began to take hold and frustrate efforts to create a German state.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GAINES POST 1968

There is a very noticeable similarity between the spirit that animated the hierarchical Ottonian empire and liturgical England, on the one hand, and the new French and Burgundian monasticism of the tenth century on the other.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

The ideal empire of Ottonian Germany was in many ways an ecclesiastical state, and its government worried itself with ecclesiastical affairs.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

Of course the bulk of those opulent knick-knacks manufactured for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors, and now to be seen at Aachen, are as beastly as anything else that is made simply to be precious.

Art Clive Bell 1922

The German bishops also yielded more and more to the authority of Rome; the Ottonian theory of government was already undermined.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913