Author: Régine Le Jan
Publisher: CRHEN-O
ISBN:
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : de
Pages : 608

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Author: Geneviève Bührer-Thierry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782200252557
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Languages : fr
Pages : 192

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"A l'aube du IXe siècle, une grande partie de l'Europe occidentale est sous la domination d'une puissante famille de l'aristocratie franque qui a réussi à s'emparer de la royauté : les Carolingiens. Charlemagne fait partie de ceux qu'on considère comme les précurseurs de la construction européenne. Pourtant, l'Europe carolingienne est bien différente de celle que nous connaissons aujourd'hui. Cet ouvrage a pour but de s'interroger sur les dimensions européennes de l'Empire carolingien. Il offre à la fois une synthèse des événements, une description des différentes parties de l'Empire et une réflexion sur les domaines qui font l'unité de l'Europe à l'époque carolingienne : le christianisme, la culture des élites et les réseaux formés par les familles de l'aristocratie. Enfin, il permet d'entrer en contact avec des textes variés et représentatifs de l'époque et de s'initier à l'exercice du commentaire de document.

Author: Geneviève Bührer-Thierry
Publisher: Armand Colin
ISBN: 2200627394
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 353

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Période fondatrice d’une « Europe » qui trouve ses racines dans l’action politique et stratégique de Charlemagne, l’ère carolingienne fascine et interroge les Européens modernes que nous sommes. Ce sont les dimensions européennes de l’empire carolingien qui sont ici étudiées et expliquées. Cette synthèse renouvelée d’une époque et d’un espace en pleine mutation, complémentaire de tout cours sur la période, offre autant un rappel des événements, une description des différentes parties de l’empire qu’une réflexion sur les éléments qui font alors l’unité de l’Europe : christianisme, culture des élites et réseaux formés par les familles de l’aristocratie. Elle dégage également plusieurs thématiques qui s’imposent aujourd’hui dans la recherche européenne sur le haut Moyen Âge, notamment le rôle des femmes et la gestion de l’espace.

Author: Janet L. Nelson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104024467X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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A major theme in the volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Papers range widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of dynastic political power are viewed in social as well as political context, and the author explores the realities of gendered power, which while constraining women, gave them distinctive possibilities for agency. These papers offer new perspectives on the Carolingian world in general and on Charlemagne's reign in particular.

Author: Stuart Airlie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786736462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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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: Routledge
ISBN: 1351219243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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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 and representation, and the pivotal role played by the courts of Charlemagne and his successors. In the third section, we see the Carolingian system undergoing a crisis of legitimacy, challenged by civil war, royal divorce, and aristocratic encroachment on dynastic exclusivity. These essays anatomise the dynamics of power relations in the greatest empire of the early medieval west.

Author: Johannes Fried
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Boyhood -- The Frankish empire and the wider world -- The warring king -- Power structures -- The ruler -- The royal court -- Reviving the title of emperor -- Imperator Augustus -- Epilogue: myths and sainthood

Author: Cullen J. Chandler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108645755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Drawing on a range of evidence related to royal authority, political events and literate culture, this study traces how kings and emperors involved themselves in the affairs of the Spanish March, and examines how actively people in Catalonia participated in politics centred on the royal court. Rather than setting the political development of the region in terms of Catalonia's future independence as a medieval principality, Cullen J. Chandler addresses it as part of the Carolingian 'experiment'. In doing so, he incorporates an analysis of political events alongside an examination of such cultural issues as the spread of the Rule of Benedict, the Adoptionist controversy, and the educational programme of the Carolingian reforms. This new history of the region offers a robust and absorbing analysis of the nature of the Carolingian legacy in the March, while also revising traditional interpretations of ethnic motivations for political acts and earlier attempts to pinpoint the constitutional birth of Catalonia.

Author: Jennifer R. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107076994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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A new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.

Author: Alberto Ferreiro
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047408187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 943

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This bibliography is a supplement to the one previously published by Brill in 1988. This one covers material from 1984 to 2003. The chronology has been expanded to begin in the fourth century. Numerous Iberian Church Fathers not represented in the first one are now incorporated. The book contains author and subject indexes and is cross-referenced throughout.