Author: Arthur Jean KleinclauszPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carolingians
Languages : fr
Pages : 708
Book Description
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
Author: Louis HalphenPublisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Carolingian Empire
Author: Heinrich FichtenauPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802063670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A classic account of Charles the Great and the heyday of Frankish rule in Europe, evaluating the achievements and failures of the empire which has been called 'the first Europe.' Reprinted from the 1968 edition, translation first published in 1957.
The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Empires
Author: D.G. TorPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004353046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Circa AD 750, both the Islamic world and western Europe underwent political revolutions; these raised to power, respectively, the ʿAbbasid and Carolingian dynasties. The eras thus inaugurated were similar not only in their chronology, but also in the foundational role each played in its respective civilization, forming and shaping enduring religious, cultural, and societal institutions. The ʿAbbāsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-ʿAbbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day. Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.
The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire
Author: Paul Edward DuttonPublisher: 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.
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
Author: Pierre RichéPublisher: 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 Carolingian World
Author: Marios CostambeysPublisher: 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.
Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749521343
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Popes During the Carolingian Empire
Author: Horace Kinder MannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carolingians
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Walter UllmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136999140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance had a wider and deeper meaning than has often been thought, especially in its political and ideological aspects. Displaying his mastery of both primary and secondary sources, Professor Ullmann presents an integrated history. He shows an epoch which holds a key to the better understanding not only of the subsequent medieval centuries, but also of modern Europe. This book opened new vistas in political, ideological and social history as well as in historical theology and jurisprudence and showed how relevant knowledge of the past is for the understanding of the present.
The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom
Author: Charles WestPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487545185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.