Ashgate, 2012. — 308 p. A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the exercise of authority through a complex system of governance...
Routledge, 2012. — 328 p. A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the exercise of authority through a complex system of...
Captivating History, 2019. — 188 p. Beginning with Charlemagne, the great and educated king who would serve as an inspiration for world leaders from Frederick II to Adolf Hitler, the Holy Roman Empire’s intricate ties with the Roman Catholic Church would provide for plenty of excitement and drama in its early years. However, as the empire staggered through the Middle Ages and...
Captivating History Press, 2020. — 112 p. Warrior. Ruler. Patron of the arts and language. Terrorist. Brutal oppressor. Protector of the good. Guardian of Christendom. Father of Europe. There are so many different ways in which Charlemagne can be described, and yet the man himself is often seen as an enigma. Depending on the viewpoint of history, he could have been either a...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 527 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe – from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 1280 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe – from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire...
Brill, 2018. — 388 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450; v. 50). The collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the...
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. — 196 p. List of Abbreviations. Translator's Introduction. Author's Preface. Charles The Great. The Imperial Title. The Court Scholars. Nobles and Officials. The Poor. The last years of Charles The Great.
Brill, 2009. — 312 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 145). Through precise and rigorous readings of Carolingian legal, polemical, and literary sources, this book excavates lively debates at both the popular and institutional levels within the Carolingian empire over the increasing integration of religious and legal precepts in jurisprudence and their effect...
Harper, 2024. — 304 p. The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones - the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power....
Brill, 2008. — 417 p. — (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 16). 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...
Duckworth, 2000. — 240 p. This is an illustrated study of towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne, in the Debates in Archaeology series, which analyses urban continuity and discontinuity in Europe during the Dark Ages. It examines the important continuing discussion of the rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe. Drawing upon new archaeological evidence from southern and...
Rizzoli, 1968. — 392 p. Come dice Gabriele Pepe nella prefazione al volume, questa è "una serrata e avvincente storia del grande sforzo di unificare l'Europa con una ideologia cattolica e integrale e con la forza delle armi". L'Impero Carolingio fu l'impero retto da Carlo Magno e dai suoi discendenti, fondato con l'incoronazione di Carlo Magno a imperatore romano da parte di...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 277 p. Wala, abbot of Corbie, played a major role in the rebellions against Emperor Louis the Pious, especially in 830, for which he was exiled. Radbert defended his beloved abbot, known to his monks as Arsenius, against accusations of infidelity in an 'epitaph' (funeral oration), composed as a two-book conversation between himself and other...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. — 377 S. — (Historische Semantik 33). In den Erlassen der karolingischen Herrscher (»Kapitularien«) bewegt sich die Sprache in einer Indifferenzzone zwischen Recht, Moral, Religion und Administration. Dadurch schufen die Karolinger ein flexibles Instrument zur Kommunikation mit ihren Amtsträgern, das sich gerade aufgrund seiner Regellosigkeit...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 288 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 57). — ISBN: 9780521819459. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–871803–1. The Formation of Christian Europe analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. — 418 p. 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...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. — 418 p. Pierre Riché 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...
Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2018. — 801 S. — (Rheinisches Archiv 159). Die vorliegende biographische Studie zu Lothar I. (795-855) schließt eine Lücke, die die Forschung bis dato offengelassen hat. Lothar, der vor allem wegen seiner Rebellionen gegen den Vater und der blutigen Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Brüdern um das Erbe meist negativ von der Nachwelt memoriert wurde, stand...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 256 pages. — ISBN: 9780521030304
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.
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Routledge, 2024. — 284 p. — (Apocalypse and the Global Middle Ages). Prophetic and apocalyptic rhetoric plays critical roles in the development and articulation of political authority in the reigns of Charlemagne (d. 814) and Louis the Pious (d. 840). The rhetorical authority derived from claims of receiving revelation, interpreting divine communication, speaking for God, and...
Routledge, 2024. — 284 p. Prophetic and apocalyptic rhetoric plays critical roles in the development and articulation of political authority in the reigns of Charlemagne (d. 814) and Louis the Pious (d. 840). The rhetorical authority derived from claims of receiving revelation, interpreting divine communication, speaking for God, and foreseeing calamities became a competitive...
Routledge, 2003. — 330 p. 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...
Routledge, 2011. — 201 p. A collection that features historical works of Austrian-Jewish scholar Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) - "The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna" (1946), "The Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages" (1961), "The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages" (1966) and "The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship"...
Routledge, 2011. — 201 p. A collection that features historical works of Austrian-Jewish scholar Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) - "The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna" (1946), "The Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages" (1961), "The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages" (1966) and "The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship"...
Routledge, 2011. — 216 p. A collection that features historical works of Austrian-Jewish scholar Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) - "The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna" (1946), "The Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages" (1961), "The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages" (1966) and "The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship"...
Brepols Pub, 2024. — 256 p. Judith of West Francia is one of the most enigmatic of Charlemagne's early descendants. The daughter of the king of West Francia and future emperor Charles the Bald and his wife Ermentrude, she was one of only a handful of Carolingian princesses who were destined for marriage. Over the course of her teenage years she married two successive kings of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 173 p. The economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), 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. Aspects of land and people, agrarian production and technique, craft and industry, and regional and international commerce are analyzed, and...
Brepols, 2010. — 214 p. Dorestad is a large, wealthy and internationally orientated harbour town from the Carolingian era excavated at the site of Wijk bij Duurstede in the middle of the Netherlands. In the eighth and ninth century A.D. it functioned as a junction in a network of Carolingian emporia or vici that covered most of present-day Europe. The past decade featured new...
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