Making And Unmaking The Carolingians

Author : Stuart Airlie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786726408
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making and Unmaking the Carolingians written by Stuart Airlie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does power manifest itself in individuals? Why do people obey authority? And how does a family, if they are the source of such dominance, convey their superiority and maintain their command in a pre-modern world lacking speedy communications, standing armies and formalised political jurisdiction? Here, Stuart Airlie expertly uses this idea of authority as a lens through which to explore one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Europe: the Carolingians. Ruling the Frankish realm from 751 to 888, the family of Charlemagne had to be ruthless in asserting their status and adept at creating a discourse of Carolingian legitimacy in order to sustain their supremacy. Through its nuanced analysis of authority, politics and family, Making and Unmaking the Carolingians, 751-888 outlines the system which placed the Carolingian dynasty at the centre of the Frankish world. In doing so, Airlie sheds important new light on both the rise and fall of the Carolingian empire and the nature of power in medieval Europe more generally.

Author : Stuart Airlie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786736462
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making and Unmaking the Carolingians written by Stuart Airlie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does power manifest itself in individuals? Why do people obey authority? And how does a family, if they are the source of such dominance, convey their superiority and maintain their command in a pre-modern world lacking speedy communications, standing armies and formalised political jurisdiction? Here, Stuart Airlie expertly uses this idea of authority as a lens through which to explore one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Europe: the Carolingians. Ruling the Frankish realm from 751 to 888, the family of Charlemagne had to be ruthless in asserting their status and adept at creating a discourse of Carolingian legitimacy in order to sustain their supremacy. Through its nuanced analysis of authority, politics and family, Making and Unmaking the Carolingians, 751-888 outlines the system which placed the Carolingian dynasty at the centre of the Frankish world. In doing so, Airlie sheds important new light on both the rise and fall of the Carolingian empire and the nature of power in medieval Europe more generally.

Author : Cullen J. Chandler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021964
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Carolingian Age written by Cullen J. Chandler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles West
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487545185
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom written by Charles West and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations. The book tracks the twists and turns of the scandal as it unfolded over a crucial decade and a half in the ninth century. Drawing on primary sources such as letters, material culture, and secret treaties, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom offers readers a sharply defined window into one of the most dramatic episodes in Carolingian history, rich with insights on the workings of early medieval society.

Author : Fabrizio Oppedisano
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8855186639
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Ostrogothic and Carolingian Italy written by Fabrizio Oppedisano and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The victory of Justinian, achieved after a lacerating war, put an end to the ambitious project conceived and implemented by Theoderic after his arrival in Italy: that of a new society in which peoples divided by centuries-old cultural barriers would live together in peace and justice, without renouncing their own traditions but respecting shared principles inspired by the values of civilitas. What did this great experiment leave to Europe and Italy in the centuries to come? What were the survivals and the ruptures, what were the revivals of that world in early medieval society? How did that past continue to be recounted and how did it interact with the present, especially in the decisive moment of the Frankish conquest of Italy? This book aims to confront these questions, and it does so by exploring different themes, concerning politics and ideology, culture and literary tradition, law, epigraphy and archaeology.

Author : Paul Edward Dutton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803216532
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire written by Paul Edward Dutton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pierre Riché
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213423
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Carolingians written by Pierre Riché and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the 1983 French edition, traces the rise, fall, and revival of the Carolingian dynasty, and shows how it molded the shape of a post-Roman Europe that is still with us today. An introduction to the subject for undergraduate or general readers. The largely French and German bibliography has been replaced with a short list of recommended English works. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315654
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Carolingians and the Written Word written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-06-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rosamond Mckitterick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872487
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians 751-987 written by Rosamond Mckitterick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pierre Riche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Carolingians written by Pierre Riche and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: