Julian Lozano Navarro (UGR) destaco los lazos que unian a los Habsburgo de la rama de Estiria, de la cual procedia Mariana, con los jesuitas, orden de la que provenia Juan Everardo
Nithard, confesor de la reina.
Authors like Einhard,
Nithard, Thegan, Astronomer, who showed the most of personal commentary on the history of the Frankish kingdom, sought to convey their vision of the contemporary Frankish events by means of historical treatises (MCKITTERICK 2004, p.
Frente a los libelos en contra de Lerma u Olivares, que tienden mas bien a influenciar la toma de decisiones por parte del monarca, los ataques entre 1668 y 1669 hacia el favorito
Nithard permiten estudiar un discurso en contra de la figura real.
To this he adds an analysis of the rivalries that existed between Louis the Pious (778-840), Lothar I (795-855), and Charles "the Bald" (823-877), as in De institutione laicali found in
Nithard's History.
Carta del Marques de los Balbases a
Nithard, Viena, 21 de marzo 1677.
This was obviously true for Einhard (discussed by David Ganz), but equally so for
Nithard (discussed by Stuart Airlie) and even Dhuoda (discussed by Janet Nelson), who expected her son to show her handbook to others.
Por outro lado, os francos de
Nithard e de Eginhard romperam a cadeia da tradicao, pesquisando seus modelos na literatura classica.
Nithard y que llegan a ocupar 21 tomos en folio que se guardan en la seccion de Manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Mss.
La tendencia a la formacion de un bloque oligarquico con aspiraciones a gobernar la monarquia quedo relativizada en los primeros anos del reinado por dos factores que potenciaron el ejercicio unipersonal del poder: el primero fue la concesion de la confianza de la reina madre a personajes que se convirtieron en sus validos (
Nithard y Valenzuela); el segundo, la personalidad de don Juan Jose de Austria.
Ninth-century Carolingians were acquainted with the rituals of knighthood ("Ninth-Century Knighthood: The Evidence of
Nithard"), used rituals in settling disputes ("Dispute Settlement in Carolingian West Francia"), and developed new rituals of king-making ("The Lord's Anointed and the People's Choice: Carolingian Royal Ritual").
Nelson, `Public Histories and Private History in the Work of
Nithard', in her Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe (Woodbridge, 1986), esp.
The articles in fact range more widely than this suggests: literacy in government; dispute settlement; ecclesiastical wealth and poverty; the Coulaines capitulary; Frankish historiography; Louis the Pious' last years; Charles the Bald and sovereignty; royal ritual; imperial models for the Franks;
Nithard and knighthood; women at Charlemagne's court; early medieval women historians; end `women and the word' (where `word' has both its Christian and its usual sense).
