Establishing just rule: the diplomatic negotiations of the Dominae Imperiales in the Ottonian Succession Crisis of 983-985

In late January and early February 985, two royal diplomas were drawn up at the royal estate of Mühlhausen, both of which granted Abbess Mathilda of Quedlinburg several estates of land. Although the lands granted remained the same, there were distinctive differences in the rhetorical shaping of the...