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Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity

Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity more books like this

by Rosamond McKitterick

Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. In this magisterial new study, Rosamond McKitterick re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. She analyses the narrative representations of Charlemagne produced after his death, and thereafter focuses on the evidence from Charlemagne's lifetime concerning the ...

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Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne: With Expanded Footnotes /

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne: With Expanded Footnotes / more books like this

by Pierre Riche, Jo A McNamara (Translator)

In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riche reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were outposts against the savagery of nature, bands of outlaws, and a myriad of pagan superstitions ...

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The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987

The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987 more books like this

by Rosamond McKitterick

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 ...

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Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century more books like this

by Eleanor S Duckett

Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age

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The Emperor Charlemagne

The Emperor Charlemagne more books like this

by Russell Chamberlin

Few men have exerted such a lasting influence on the course of Western history as has Charlemagne (742-814). At the height of his power in the early ninth century Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Romans, ruled all the Christian lands of western Europe except the British Isles and southern Italy and Sicily. ...

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Gentle Voices of Teachers: Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian a

Gentle Voices of Teachers: Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian a more books like this

by Richard Eugene Sullivan

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The Carolingian Economy

The Carolingian Economy more books like this

by Adriaan Verhulst

This book is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. It is the first comprehensive evaluation of the topic in English in over twenty years. The study of the Carolingian empire as ...

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Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation

Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation more books like this

by Rosamond McKitterick

This volume of specially commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is made the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of renewal to emphasise the enormous creativity and ...

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The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe

The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe more books like this

by Pierre Riche

Pierre Riche traces the emergence of Europe from the seventh to the early eleventh century, the period that witnessed the rise, fall, and revival of the Carolinian Empire. It was during this time the first contours of a broad new civilization and the first visible signs of European unity are discernable. Until the seventh century Europe was ...

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A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court more books like this

by Lawrence Nees

"A Tainted Mantle" focuses on two works of Carolingian literature and art, Theodulf of Orleans' poem "Contra Iudices", and the ivory throne identified as the Cathedra Petri (the Throne of St Peter). Both works feature the pagan hero Hercules, showing him not as a positive model for Carolingian rulers, as has often been suggested, but in fact as an ...

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Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard

Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard more books like this

by Paul Dutton (Editor)

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The Carolingians and the Written Word

The Carolingians and the Written Word more books like this

by Rosamond McKitterick

This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth- and ninth-centuries. It demonstrates that literacy was by no means confined to a clerical elite, but was dispersed in lay society and used for government and administration, and for ordinary legal transactions among ...

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Diplomatic Studies in Latin and Greek Documents from the Carolingian Age more books like this

by Luitpold Wallach

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History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: The Chronicle of Regino of Prum and Adalbert of Magdeburg more books like this

by Regino, Simon MacLean (Editor)

Abbot Regino of Prum (d.915) was the last great historian of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned around a million square kilometres of continental western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. His chronicle is the essential account of the empire's collapse, while its brief continuation by Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, is one of the ...

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The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire more books like this

by Paul Edward Dutton

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, ...

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Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World more books like this

by Patrick Wormald (Editor), Janet L Nelson (Editor)

This fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays examines lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire from Charlemagne to Charles the Bald, and in England from Alfred to Edgar. It explores a diverse range of Latin and vernacular texts written by secular authors, informing contemporary debate about the ...

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Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians more books like this

by Thomas F X Noble

In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus was set off the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the Second Council ...

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Carolingian art more books like this

by Jean Hubert, Jean Porcher, Wolfgang Fritz Volbach

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Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians more books like this

by Julia M H Smith, Rosamond McKitterick (Editor), Christine Carpenter (Editor)

This book offers new thinking about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of ...

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Water the Word Vol 1: Commentary more books like this

by Susan A Keefe

Water and the Word focuses on a genre of literature written for the education of the Carolingian clergy: Carolingian baptismal instructions. This literature has never been brought together and studied collectively in the context of the books in which it circulated. This comprehensive study has three major objectives. One is to describe the codices ...

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Carolingian Essays: Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Early Christian Studies more books like this

by Uta-Renate Blumenthal (Editor)

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Province and Empire more books like this

by Julia M H Smith

This book offers new thinking about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of ...

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Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories more books like this

by Bernhard Walter Scholz

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Hincmar of Laon more books like this

by Peter R McKeon

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From Ducatus to Regnum: Ruling Bavaria Under the Merovingians and Early Carolingians more books like this

by Carl I Hammer

Bavaria was a very important country during the early Middle Ages. Its territory included much of the modern German state but also reached across the Alps into what are now Austria and northern Italy. Bavaria thus occupied a strategic position between the rival kingdoms of the Franks and the Langobards. It was ruled by powerful dukes who had close ...

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