Publication details
Graue Eminenzen in Aktion : Personale Strukturen informeller Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse an den Höfen des Spätmittelalters
| Title in English | Grey Eminences in Action : Personal Structures of Informal Decision-Making at Late Medieval Courts |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Conference |
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| Description | The term “Grey Eminence” (“Éminence grise”) was originally coined for a figure of French early modern history, François Leclerc du Tremblay, the key adviser and alter ego of Cardinal Richelieu. Since historiography has hitherto only scarcely been using the term, we had to refer to a more unspecific, every day understanding of the word (“someone working in the shadow of another one”). The GREMIA project and this conference aimed to provide a more comprehensive definition of the concept that seems apt to match the realities of power in late European medieval courts. It turns out that the term "grey eminence" appropriately complements the established categories of "favourite" or "second to the king". |
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