Rulers And Ruling Families In Early Medieval Europe

Author : Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429516344

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Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe by Janet L. Nelson Pdf

First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of papers by Janet L. Nelson. She first examines King Alfred of Wessex (871-99) in the context of Anglo-Saxon conditions and in comparison with his Carolingian contemporaries. When tension and conflict within the royal family are highlighted, she argues that Alfred’s talents and political thought emerge the more impressively. A second group of papers deals with the reign of Charles the Bald (840-77): his patronage of learning and his interest in Spanish martyrs are set in political context, while contemporary historiography is considered as a form of counsel and critique. The third section reflects Nelson’s growing interest in the political importance and gendered roles of royal women. Consecration rites are analysed as ritual expressions and factors in the shaping of the queenship, while two final papers also examine the making and unmaking of Frankish kings and princes.

Author : Janet Laughland Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748996429

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Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe by Janet Laughland Nelson Pdf

Author : Gerd Althoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521779340

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Family, Friends and Followers by Gerd Althoff Pdf

A study of how bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship shaped medieval European political life.

Author : Pauline Stafford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118425138

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A Companion to the Early Middle Ages by Pauline Stafford Pdf

Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings

Author : Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521515177

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The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre Pdf

This book is a collection of original essays on gift in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing on the languages of gift, the essays reveal how early medieval people visualized and thought about gift, and how they distinguished between the giving of gifts and other forms of social, economic, political and religious exchange. The same team, largely, that produced the widely cited The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1986) has again collaborated in a collective effort that harnesses individual expertise in order to draw from the sources a deeper understanding of the early Middle Ages by looking at real cases, that is at real people, whether peasant or emperor. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; in this book, by contrast, we see people going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways.

Author : Jennifer R. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107076990

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Charlemagne's Practice of Empire by Jennifer R. Davis Pdf

A new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.

Author : Stephen D. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000939385

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Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe by Stephen D. White Pdf

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin, lords, men, and friends, and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage/clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, and feuding. In so doing, the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them.

Author : Anton Scharer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000946932

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Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages by Anton Scharer Pdf

This volume brings together a set of articles by Professor Anton Scharer dealing with the themes of conversion, court culture and royal representation in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe. It includes two previously unpublished papers, and another four specially translated into English for this publication. Three papers focus on different aspects of conversion: the spread of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England by means of social relations, the role of language in this process and the monastic and social background of the insular mission to the Continent. With conversion came the import of Latin written culture, including charters, and one study focuses on royal styles in Anglo-Saxon charters. A second paper on early mediaeval royal diplomas, and what they at times reveal about very personal reactions and sentiments, leads to the theme of court culture. This is further explored in a batch of papers centred on Alfred the Great and covering the subjects of historiography, of inauguration rites or ordines, and of hitherto neglected personal contacts, as a clue to the transmission of experiences, ideas and texts. Closely linked are studies on the role of Charlemagne's daughters at their fathe's court and on objects of princely and royal representation. Throughout, particular attention is given to the examination of mutual, Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian, influences and to viewing the matters under discussion from an 'Anglo-Saxon' as well as a 'Continental' perspective.

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1843830590

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The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov Pdf

The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Simon MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139440295

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Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century by Simon MacLean Pdf

This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876–888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen as a dismal period of decline and fall, scarred by internal feuding, unfettered aristocratic ambition and Viking onslaught. This book offers an alternative interpretation, arguing that previous generations of historians misunderstood the nature and causes of the end of the empire, and neglected many of the relatively numerous sources for this period. Topics covered include the significance of aristocratic power; political structures; the possibilities and limits of kingship; developments in royal ideology; the struggle with the Vikings and the nature of regional political identities. In proposing these explanations for the empire's disintegration, the book has broader implications for our understanding of this formative period of European history more generally.

Author : Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Simon MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521563666

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The Carolingian World by Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Simon MacLean Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.

Author : Simon MacLean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9780198800101

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Ottonian Queenship by Simon MacLean Pdf

This is a full-length study of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty, who dominated Continental Europe in the tenth and early eleventh centuries; presenting original arguments about the nature and origins of queenly power and seeing it as a product of the dynamics of European politics in the decades after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire

Author : Stephen Baxter,Catherine Karkov,Janet L. Nelson,David Pelteret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351942492

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Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald by Stephen Baxter,Catherine Karkov,Janet L. Nelson,David Pelteret Pdf

Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Leading British, American and continental scholars - his colleagues, friends and pupils - here bear witness to his seminal influence by presenting a collection of studies devoted to the key themes that dominated his work: kingship; law and society; ethnic, religious, national and linguistic identities; the power of images, pictorial or poetic, in shaping political and religious institutions. Closely mirroring the interests of their honorand, the collection not only underlines Patrick Wormald's enormous contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, but graphically demonstrates his belief that early medieval England and Anglo-Saxon law could only be understood against a background of research into contemporary developments in the nearby Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Frankish kingdoms. He would have been well pleased, therefore, that this volume should make such significant advances in our understanding of the world of Bede, of the dynasty of King Alfred, and also of the workings of English law between the seventh and the twelfth century. Moreover he would have been particularly delighted at the rich comparisons and contrasts with Celtic societies offered here and with the series of fundamental reassessments of aspects of Carolingian Francia. Above all these studies present fundamental reinterpretations, not only of published written sources and their underlying manuscript evidence, but also of the development of some of the dominant ideas of that era. In both their scope and the quality of the scholarship, the collection stands as a fitting tribute to the work and life of Patrick Wormald and his lasting contribution to early medieval studies.

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490672

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Blood Royal by Robert Bartlett Pdf

An engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.

Author : Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521420180

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Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses by Gábor Klaniczay Pdf

A study of medieval Hungarian and central European royal saints.