Court Culture In The Early Middle Ages

Author : Catherine Cubitt
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UOM:39015058217855

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Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages by Catherine Cubitt Pdf

The role of the court in early medieval polities has long been recognised as an essential force in the running of the kingdom. The court was not only an organ of central government but a sociological community with its own ideology and culture, and a place where royal power was both displayed and negotiated. The studies within this volume reflect the diversity of modern court studies, considering the court as a social body and considering its educative and ideological activities. The contributors to this volume bring together historical, archaeological, art historical and literary approaches to the topic as they consider aspects of court life in England, Francia, Rome, and Byzantium from the eighth to the tenth centuries. The volume therefore looks at court life in the round, emphasizes and invites connections between early medieval courts, and opens new perspectives for the understanding of early medieval courts.

Author : V. J. Scattergood,J. W. Sherborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000003994170

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English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages by V. J. Scattergood,J. W. Sherborne Pdf

Author : James R. Simpson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039113852

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Troubling Arthurian Histories by James R. Simpson Pdf

Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates Erec et Enide, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the tale have not uncommonly presented Chrétien's poem as a decorous 'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and fin'amors, between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by questions and skeletons from various closets.

Author : Y. Hen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230593640

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Roman Barbarians by Y. Hen Pdf

This study investigates the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage in several European kingdoms in the early Middle Ages. It seeks to identify the roots of later medieval developments, and especially of the Carolingian Renaissance, in the centuries immediately succeeding the period of Roman rule.

Author : Yitzhak Hen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Carolingians
ISBN : 0333803248

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Roman Barbarians by Yitzhak Hen Pdf

Author : Steven J. Gunn,A. Janse
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831910

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The Court as a Stage by Steven J. Gunn,A. Janse Pdf

European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre. In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has rightfully taken a central part in the study of European states and societies in the age of personal monarchy. Yet it has been approached from so many different angles and appropriated to so many different models that it can be hard to put all our new understandings together to achieve a proper perspective on the functions of the court as a whole. This collection of essays uses the idea of the court as a stage for social and political interaction to re-integrate different styles of court history, focusing on courts in England and the Low Countries from the age of Richard II and Albert of Bavaria to that of Elizabeth I and Philip II. Themes studied include the relationship between court politics and cultural change, the social and political functions of court office-holding, the military, judicial and propagandist roles of the court, the economic relationships between courts and cities and the wider social and political significance of court rituals and traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448650

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Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period across western and central Europe.

Author : Malcolm Vale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191513329

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The Princely Court by Malcolm Vale Pdf

In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the court culture of western Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the century or so between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low Countries, he illuminates a period in the history of princes and court life previously overshadowed by that of the courts of the dukes of Burgundy. Taking in subjects as diverse as art patronage and gambling, hunting and devotional religion, Malcolm Vale rediscovers a richness and abundance of artistic, literary, and musical life. He shows how, despite the pressures of political fragmentation, unrest, and a nascent awareness of national identity, a common culture emerged in English, French, and Dutch court societies at this time. The result is a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the nature and role of the court in European history and a celebration of a forgotten age.

Author : Warren Brown,Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Adam Kosto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025295

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Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages by Warren Brown,Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Adam Kosto Pdf

This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.

Author : Glaire D. Anderson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409449432

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The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia by Glaire D. Anderson Pdf

Case study of Córdoban aristocratic estates during the Umayyad dynastic period (756-1031), synthesizing archaeological evidence unearthed from the 1980s up to 2009 with extant works of Andalusi art and architecture as well as evidence from medieval Arabic texts; incorporating material and insights from the fields of agricultural, economic, social and political history; and offering a fuller picture of secular architecture and social history in the caliphal lands and the Mediterranean.

Author : Julia M. H. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514272

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Europe after Rome by Julia M. H. Smith Pdf

This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in their own words. It overturns traditional narratives and instead offers an entirely fresh approach to the centuries from c.500 to c.1000. Rejecting any notion of a dominant, uniform early medieval culture, it argues that the fundamental characteristic of the early middle ages is diversity of experience. To explain how the men and women who lived in this period ordered their world in cultural, social, and political terms, it employs an innovative methodology combining cultural history, regional studies, and gender history. Ranging comparatively from Ireland to Hungary and from Scotland and Scandinavia to Spain and Italy, the analysis highlights three themes: regional variation, power, and the legacy of Rome. The book's eight chapters examine the following subjects: Speaking and Writing; Living and Dying; Friends and Relations; Men and Women; Labour and Lordship; Getting and Giving; Kingship and Christianity; Rome and the Peoples of Europe. Collectively, they establish the complex cultural realities which distinguished Europe in the period between the end of the central institutions of the western Roman empire in the fifth century and the emergence of a Rome-centred papal monarchy from the late eleventh century onwards. In the context of debates about the social, religious and cultural meaning of 'Europe' in the early twenty-first century, this books seeks the origins of European cultural pluralism and diversity in the early Middle Ages.

Author : Michael J. Kelly
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685710545

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Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages by Michael J. Kelly Pdf

Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages seeks to expand our understanding of early medieval connectivity by interrogating social and intellectual collaborations, competitions, and communications among persons, places, things, and ideas in the European and Mediterranean West during the second half of the first millennium CE. In so doing, its contributors explore the existence, performance, and sustainability of diverse political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, and material networks via manuscripts, artifacts, and theories framed by two broad interpretive categories. The first examines networks of scholars, writers, and the social and political histories related to their productions. The second imagines the transmission of "knowledge" as information, rhetoric, object, and epistemic grounding. In addition, the book rigorously investigates the theoretical possibilities and problems of researching early medieval networks, attempts to re-construct historical networks, and critically analyzes the concept of "information."

Author : Patrick Wormald
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1852851759

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Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West by Patrick Wormald Pdf

"Wormald's essays seek to establish that legal history is not just the history of law, nor even that of society, but also that of elite and popular culture in complex and creative symbiosis. This collection will appeal to all interested in the institutions and ideologies of the premodern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Janet Laughland Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123350022

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Courts, Elites, and Gendered Power in the Early Middle Ages by Janet Laughland Nelson Pdf

A major theme in the present volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Some papers range more widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of dynastic political power are viewed in social as well as political context, and the author explores the realities of gendered power, which while constraining women, gave them distinctive possibilities for agency. These papers offer new perspectives on the Carolingian world in general and on Charlemagne's reign in particular.

Author : Albrecht Fuess,Jan-Peter Hartung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136917806

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Court Cultures in the Muslim World by Albrecht Fuess,Jan-Peter Hartung Pdf

Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm. The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to India. Themes range from the religious legitimacy of Muslim rulers, terminologies for court culture in Oriental languages, Muslim concepts of space for royal representation, accessibility of rulers, the role of royal patronage for Muslim scholars and artists to the growing influence of European courts as role models from the eighteenth century onwards. Discussing specific terminologies for courts in Oriental languages and explaining them to the non specialist, chapters describe the specific features of Muslim courts and point towards future research areas. As such, it fills this important gap in the existing literature in the areas of Islamic history, religion, and Islam in particular.