Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 35,38 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 : 17,88 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 : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Index of Christian Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,38 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 : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108802273
Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of food-growing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.
Author : DR EDOARDO. MANARINI
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,54 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 : Wendy Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521522250
A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.
Author : Katherine L. Jansen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0812206061
Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the richly textured religious life of the mainland and its islands. A unique feature of this volume is its incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily—the glittering Norman court at Palermo, the multicultural emporium of the south, and the kingdoms of Frederick II—into a larger narrative of Italian history. Including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Lombard sources, the documents speak in ethnically and religiously differentiated voices, while providing wider chronological and geographical coverage than previously available. Rich in interdisciplinary texts and organized to enable the reader to focus by specific region, topic, or period, this is a volume that will be an essential resource for anyone with a professional or private interest in the history, religion, literature, politics, and built environment of Italy from ca. 1000 to 1400.
Author : Elina Screen
Publisher :
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,81 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.
Author : Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520383214
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual curiosity, he was a man of many parts, a warlord and conqueror, a judge who promised 'for each their law and justice', a defender of the Latin Church, a man of flesh-and-blood. In the twelve centuries since his death, warfare, accident, vermin, and the elements have destroyed much of the writing on his rule, but a remarkable amount has survived. Janet Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charles, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives. Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped counties, countries, and continents, founded and rebuilt towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the head of the renewed Roman Empire. His successors--in some ways even up to the present day--have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy, or subvert his legacy.
Author : Renie S. Choy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,19 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.
