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Author : Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Simon MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521563666
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 : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004166691
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 : Ingrid Rembold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196216
Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.
Author : Valerie Garver
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801464959
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 : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521534364
This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
Author : Patrick Wormald,Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521834537
Collection of essays examining lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire.
Author : Pierre Riché
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0812210964
Detailed account of the common people's daily life in the time of Charlemagne and how politics and military struggle affected them.
Author : Rosamond Mckitterick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317872474
An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of immense political, religious. cultural and intellectual dynamism; not only did it lay the foundations of the governmental and administrative institutions of Europe and the organisation of the Church, but it also securely established the intellectual and cultural traditions which were to dominate western Christendom for centuries to come.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521315654
Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.
Author : Clemens Gantner,Rosamond McKitterick,Sven Meeder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091719
This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.
Author : Matthew Bryan Gillis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198797586
Recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais-a priest who developed a controversial, Augustinian-based theology of predestination that directly contradicted Carolingian beliefs, showing how the Carolingian Empire preserved order within the Frankish Christian church through coercive reform.
Author : Paul Edward Dutton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080321653X
Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of this formative period of European history than the one found in standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had lost its way. This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century. Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain constitutional future.
Author : Joanna Story
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351953320
The Anglo-Saxon influence on the Carolingian world has long been recognised by historians of the early medieval period. Wilhelm Levison, in particular, has drawn attention to the importance of the Anglo-Saxon contribution to the cultural and ecclesiastical development of Carolingian Francia in the central decades of the eighth century. What is much less familiar is the reverse process, by which Francia and Carolingian concepts came to influence contemporary Anglo-Saxon culture. In this book Dr Story offers a major contribution to the subject of medieval cultural exchanges, focusing on the degree to which Frankish ideas and concepts were adopted by Anglo-Saxon rulers. Furthermore, by concentrating on the secular context and concepts of secular government as opposed to the more familiar ecclesiastical and missionary focus of Levison's work, this book offers a counterweight to the prevailing scholarship, providing a much more balanced overview of the subject. Through this reassessment, based on a close analysis of contemporary manuscripts - particularly the Northumbrian sources - Dr Story offers a fresh insight into the world of early medieval Europe.
Author : Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521004748
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Author : Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812221442
Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to revive the Roman empire in the West. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book-length study of how the Frankish dynasty, beginning with Pippin II, established its power and cultivated its military expertise in order to reestablish the regnum Francorum, a geographical area of the late Roman period that includes much of present-day France and western Germany. Bernard Bachrach has thoroughly examined contemporary sources, including court chronicles, military handbooks, and late Roman histories and manuals, to establish how the early Carolingians used their legacy of political and military techniques and strategies forged in imperial Rome to regain control in the West. Pippin II and his successors were not diverted by opportunities for financial enrichment in the short term through raids and campaigns outside of the regnum Francorum; they focused on conquest with sagacious sensibilities, preferring bloodless diplomatic solutions to unnecessarily destructive warfare, and disdained military glory for its own sake. But when they had to deploy their military forces, their operations were brutal and efficient. Their training was exceptionally well developed, and their techniques included hand-to-hand combat, regimented troop movements, fighting on horseback with specialized mounted soldiers, and the execution of lengthy sieges employing artillery. In order to sustain their long-term strategy, the early Carolingians relied on a late Roman model whereby soldiers were recruited from among the militarized population who were required by law to serve outside their immediate communities. The ability to mass and train large armies from among farmers and urban-dwellers gave the Carolingians the necessary power to lay siege to the old Roman fortress cities that dominated the military topography of the West. Bachrach includes fresh accounts of Charles Martel's defeat of the Muslims at Poitiers in 732, and Pippin's successful siege of Bourges in 762, demonstrating that in the matter of warfare there never was a western European Dark Age that ultimately was enlightened by some later Renaissance. The early Carolingians built upon surviving military institutions, adopted late antique technology, and effectively utilized their classical intellectual inheritance to prepare the way militarily for Charlemagne's empire.
