Author: Marios Costambeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521563666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
The Carolingian World
Author: Marios Costambeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521563666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521563666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World
Author: Valerie Garver
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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.
The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Author: Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004166696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004166696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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.
Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World
Author: Patrick Wormald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521834538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collection of essays examining lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521834538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collection of essays examining lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire.
The Carolingian Economy
Author: Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521004749
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521004749
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
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History and Memory in the Carolingian World
Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
Conquest and Christianization
Author: Ingrid Rembold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
Author: Pierre Riché
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Detailed account of the common people's daily life in the time of Charlemagne and how politics and military struggle affected them.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Detailed account of the common people's daily life in the time of Charlemagne and how politics and military struggle affected them.
The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire
Author: Paul Edward Dutton
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.
The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space
Author: S. Collins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137295058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137295058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.