Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780511394546
Marios Costambeys discusses the nature of political power in early medieval Italy, offering a fresh perspective.
Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1139468103
Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict limits. Other parties - local elites, as well as Lombard and then Carolingian rulers - were often more important in structuring power in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early medieval politics, as a conduit for others' interests, and a player in its own right.
Author : Giovanni Tabacco
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521336802
Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1108489117
Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.
Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Index of Christian Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780983753742
The essays in this volume, from those that look at patronage from a theoretical perspective as it relates to issues such as gender, social and economic history, to individual case studies, highlight our need to look at the subject anew.
Author : Mary Hollingsworth
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
This is the first comprehensive study of patrons in the Italian quattrocento. It will be of great interest to art historians and their students and to lovers of Renaissance art and civilization. At the start of the fifteenth century the patron, not the artist, was seen as the creator and he carefully controlled both subject and medium. In a competitive and voilent age, image and ostentation were essential statements of power. Buildings, bronze or tapestry were much more eloquent statements than the cheaper marble or fresco. The artistic quality that concerns us was less important than perceived cost. The arts in any case were just part of a pattern of conspicuous expenditure which would have included for instance holy relics, manuscripts and jewels - all of which had the added advantage that they were portable and could be used as collateral for bank loans. Since Christian teaching frowned on wealth and power, money had also to be spent on religious endowments made in expiation. But here too the patron was in control, and used the arts and other means to express religious belief, not aesthetic sensibility. Thus artists in the Early Renaissance were employed as craftsmen. Only late in the century did their relations with patrons start to adopt a pattern we might recognize today. This book, which also discusses the important differences between mercantile republics like Florence and Venice, the princely states such as Naples and Milan, and the papal court in Rome, is essential for a full understanding of why the works of this seminal period take the forms they do. --inside cover.
Author : José C. Sánchez-Pardo
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : 9782503545554
Local churches were an established part of many towns and villages across early medieval Western Europe, and their continued presence make them an invaluable marker for comparing different societies. Up to now, however, the dynamics of power behind church building and the importance of their presence within the landscape have largely been neglected. This book takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of early medieval churches, drawing together archaeology, history, architecture, and landscape studies in order to explore the relationship between church foundation, social power, and political organization across Europe. Key subjects addressed here include the role played by local elites and the importance of the church in buttressing authority, as well as the connections between archaeology and ideology, and the importance of individual church buildings in their broader landscape contexts. Bringing together case-studies from diverse regions across Western Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the British Isles, Denmark, and Iceland), the seventeen contributions to this volume offer new insights into the relationships between church foundations, social power, and political organization. In doing so, they provide a means to better understand social power in the landscape of early medieval Europe.
Author : DR EDOARDO. MANARINI
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category :
ISBN : 9789463725828
This study examines a single, but large and extremely important family over a long period of analysis This study uses a methodological approach not common in English scholarship but tried and tested in Italian scholarship The Hucpoldings remain, surprisingly, an unsurveyed subject
Author : Renie S. Choy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0192511017
In early medieval Europe, monasticism constituted a significant force in society because the prayers of the religious on behalf of others featured as powerful currency. The study of this phenomenon is at once full of potential and peril, rightly drawing attention to the wider social involvement of an otherwise exclusive group, but also describing a religious community in terms of its service provision. Previous scholarship has focused on the supply and demand of prayer within the medieval economy of power, patronage, and gift exchange. Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms is the first volume to explain how this transactional dimension of prayer factored into monastic spirituality. Renie S. Choy uncovers the relationship between the intercessory function of monasteries and the ascetic concern for moral conversion in the minds of prominent religious leaders active between c. 750-820. Through sustained analysis of the devotional thought of Benedict of Aniane and contemporaneous religious reformers during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, Choy examines key topics in the study of Carolingian monasticism: liturgical organization and the intercessory performances of the Mass and the Divine Office, monastic theology, and relationships of prayer within monastic communities and with the world outside. Arguing that monastic leaders showed new interest on the intersection between the interiority of prayer and the functional world of social relationships, this study reveals the ascetic ideal undergirding the provision of intercessory prayer by monasteries.
Author : Elina Screen
Publisher :
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107198399
This innovative collection re-evaluates the function and significance of the written word in early medieval Europe.
