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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521563666
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Author : Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9004166696
This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.
Author : Valerie L. Garver
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801460174
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521534369
This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
Author : Patrick Wormald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521834538
Collection of essays examining lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire.
Author : Ingrid Rembold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1107196213
Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.
Author : Pierre Riché
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812210965
Detailed account of the common people's daily life in the time of Charlemagne and how politics and military struggle affected them.
Author : Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521004749
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Author : Pierre Riché
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812213423
Translated from the 1983 French edition, traces the rise, fall, and revival of the Carolingian dynasty, and shows how it molded the shape of a post-Roman Europe that is still with us today. An introduction to the subject for undergraduate or general readers. The largely French and German bibliography has been replaced with a short list of recommended English works. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Sarah Greer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0429683030
Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the ‘post-Carolingian’ period in its own right and presenting it as a time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and legitimacy. In the late eighth century, the Frankish king Charlemagne put together a new empire. Less than a century later, that empire had collapsed. The story of Europe following the end of the Carolingian empire has often been presented as a tragedy: a time of turbulence and disintegration, out of which the new, recognisably medieval kingdoms of Europe emerged. This collection offers a different perspective. Taking a transnational approach, the authors contemplate the new social and political order that emerged in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe and examine how those shaping this new order saw themselves in relation to the past. Each chapter explores how the past was used creatively by actors in the regions of the former Carolingian Empire to search for political, legal and social legitimacy in a turbulent new political order. Advancing the debates on the uses of the past in the early Middle Ages and prompting reconsideration of the narratives that have traditionally dominated modern writing on this period, Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire is ideal for students and scholars of tenth- and eleventh-century European history.