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The Ottonian Renaissance is recognized especially in the the literate mother of Otto I, or his sister Gerberga Of Saxony , or his consort Adelaide , or Empress Theophano . After Otto I's imperial coronation in , the Carolingian period, and Byzantium . In this way, the term is used as an analogue to the Carolingian Renaissance which accompanied Charlemagne 's coronation in 800 . A small group of Ottonian monasteries received direct sponsorship from the Emperor and bishops and produced some magnificant medieval illuminated manuscripts, the premier art form of the time. Corvey produced some of the first manuscripts, followed by the scriptorium at Hildesheim after 1000. The most famous Ottonian scriptorium was at the island monastery of Reichenau on Lake Constance: hardly any other works have formed the image of Ottonian art as much as the miniatures which originated there. One of the greatest Reichenau works was the ''Codex Egberti'', containing narrative miniatures of the life of Christ, the earliest such cycle, in a fusion of styles including Carolingian traditions as well as traces of insular and Byzantine influences. Other well known manuscripts included the Reichenau Evangeliary, the Liuther Codex, the Pericopes of Henry II, the Bamberg Apocalypse and the Hitda Codex. Hroswitha Of Gandersheim characterises the changes which took place during the time. She was a Nun who composed Verse and Drama , based on the Classical works of Terence . The architecture of the period was also innovative and represents a Predecessor to the later Romanesque . Politically, theories of Christian unity and empire thrived, as well as revived classical notions of imperial grandeur in the West. Otto II had a Greek wife, Theophano , and Byzantine iconography entered the West. The Globus Cruciger became a symbol of kingly power and the Holy Roman Emperors were represented as crowned by Christ in the Byzantine fashion. It was in trying to revive the "glory that was Rome" that Otto III made the Eternal City his capital and increased in Greco-Roman fashion the ceremony of the court. LEADING FIGURES OF THE OTTONIAN RENAISSANCE
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