The Rise Of The Carolingians And The Liber Historiae Francorum
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Author | : Richard A. Gerberding |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Drawing on the 8th-century chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, this book presents a highly accurate view of the society in which Charlemagne's ancestors set themselves on the road to power and throws new light on the early family members themselves and on the factors which directed politics in the Frankish "dark ages."
Author | : Richard A. Gerberding |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Drawing on the 8th-century chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, this book presents a highly accurate view of the society in which Charlemagne's ancestors set themselves on the road to power and throws new light on the early family members themselves and on the factors which directed politics in the Frankish "dark ages."
Author | : Rosamond McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521534369 |
This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
Author | : Bernard S. Bachrach |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812221443 |
Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to revive the Roman empire in the West. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book-length study of how the Frankish dynasty, beginning with Pippin II, established its power and cultivated its military expertise in order to reestablish the regnum Francorum, a geographical area of the late Roman period that includes much of present-day France and western Germany. Bernard Bachrach has thoroughly examined contemporary sources, including court chronicles, military handbooks, and late Roman histories and manuals, to establish how the early Carolingians used their legacy of political and military techniques and strategies forged in imperial Rome to regain control in the West. Pippin II and his successors were not diverted by opportunities for financial enrichment in the short term through raids and campaigns outside of the regnum Francorum; they focused on conquest with sagacious sensibilities, preferring bloodless diplomatic solutions to unnecessarily destructive warfare, and disdained military glory for its own sake. But when they had to deploy their military forces, their operations were brutal and efficient. Their training was exceptionally well developed, and their techniques included hand-to-hand combat, regimented troop movements, fighting on horseback with specialized mounted soldiers, and the execution of lengthy sieges employing artillery. In order to sustain their long-term strategy, the early Carolingians relied on a late Roman model whereby soldiers were recruited from among the militarized population who were required by law to serve outside their immediate communities. The ability to mass and train large armies from among farmers and urban-dwellers gave the Carolingians the necessary power to lay siege to the old Roman fortress cities that dominated the military topography of the West. Bachrach includes fresh accounts of Charles Martel's defeat of the Muslims at Poitiers in 732, and Pippin's successful siege of Bourges in 762, demonstrating that in the matter of warfare there never was a western European Dark Age that ultimately was enlightened by some later Renaissance. The early Carolingians built upon surviving military institutions, adopted late antique technology, and effectively utilized their classical intellectual inheritance to prepare the way militarily for Charlemagne's empire.
Author | : Helmut Reimitz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316381021 |
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success of the Frankish kingdoms provided the medieval West with fundamental political, religious and social structures, including a change from the Roman perspective on ethnicity as the quality of the 'Other' to the Carolingian perception that a variety of Christian peoples were chosen by God to reign over the former Roman provinces. Interpreting identity as an open-ended process, Helmut Reimitz explores the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts through which societies tried to find order in the rapidly changing post-Roman world.
Author | : J.M. Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429588879 |
Originally published in 1962, The Long-Haired Kings is split into two parts. The first is concerned with the history of France in the period of gestation, between the end of Roman imperial room in Gaul, and the emergence of medieval France in the tenth century. It is principally concerned with the Franks, their institutions, laws and writers. The second half acts as an introduction to the hitherto unpublished study of Frankish kingship and surveys Merovingian rule from its beginning in the Rhineland wastes to the metamorphosis as Carolingian rule. This book is a unique contribution to the study of medieval history and was one of the first books of its time to provide a unique study of European languages.
Author | : Marios Costambeys |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521563666 |
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Author | : Paul Fouracre |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526112787 |
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.
Author | : Frans Theuws |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004117342 |
Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.
Author | : Herbert Schutz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004131491 |
This book is an attempt to focus where pertinent on the Carolingian cultural inventory produced and assembled in the libraries, museums and architectural sites of Central Europe. This inventory allows conclusions which demonstrate the originality of the literary, artistic and architectural efforts.