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The Ottonian authors have represented the language of symbolic communication as complex and diverse, but all of them had one thing in common: they depicted the Ottonian Age as a period when had been created a new system of representation of power. The primary purpose of the Ottonian representation of power in the periods of government of Henry I. and Otto I. was creation of a new “symbolic context” to confirm the legitimacy of the newly-established Saxon dynasty and to demonstrate the might of these rulers. In a short time a German ducal family became royal and then imperial dynasty. Ottonian authors had to conceal the rapidity of this change and tried to make semblance of continuity of the tradition. Therefore, special significance in their writings acquired three main types of symbolic acts: (1) the inaugurations of ruler (symbolic justification of the dynastical rights), (2) the acts of symbolic communication with foreigners (sign of external recognition of the power of the “young” dynasty), (3) the symbolic acts of resolution of numerous internal conflicts between Otto I. and his competitors in the struggle for power.