Carolingian Civilization
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Author | : Paul Edward Dutton |
Publisher | : Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"I've been teaching the 'Age of Charlemagne' for 25 years. Thanks to Paul Dutton, I finally have the book I need to make this age come alive." - Charles R. Bowlus, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Author | : Paul Edward Dutton |
Publisher | : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"I've been teaching the 'Age of Charlemagne' for 25 years. Thanks to Paul Dutton, I finally have the book I need to make this age come alive." - Charles R. Bowlus, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Author | : D.G. Tor |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-10-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004353046 |
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.
Author | : Paul Edward Dutton |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803216532 |
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.
Author | : Marios Costambeys |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113993614X |
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 dominated the region and left an enduring legacy for European culture. This comprehensive survey traces this great empire's history, from its origins around 700, with the rise to dominance of the Carolingian dynasty, through its expansion by ruthless military conquest and political manoeuvring in the eighth century, to the struggle to hold the empire together in the ninth. It places the complex political narrative in context, giving equal consideration to vital themes such as beliefs, peasant society, aristocratic culture and the economy. Accessibly written and authoritative, this book offers distinctive perspectives on a formative period in European history.
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 | : 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.
Author | : Brepols Publishers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782503587998 |
This book presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts that have scarcely been adopted, if at all, by mainstream research in the field. It contributes to the discovery of some underestimated aspects of early medieval (especially Carolingian) Latin literature: intertextuality as intercultural relationship (in Biblical epic), intermediality (text-image-sound connections), interdisciplinarity (science, religion, and poetry), hermeneutics (Biblical exegesis as poetry-engine), post-colonial reading (medieval Latin as a second language), socio-literary approaches (monastic epigraphs as witnesses of everyday life, writing as a status symbol of an intellectual class and a whole civilization). It also discusses quantitative methods, which are explored in more detail in a second volume, 'Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II').00The book thus seeks to encourage scholarly interest in obscure or less familiar elements of the Carolingian literary renewal, interpreted here as more a laboratory of innovations than a revival of traditional patterns.
Author | : Hywel Williams |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780857381620 |
Through his foreign conquests & internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe & the Middle Ages. Crowned king of the Franks in 768, he expanded their kingdoms into an empire that incorporated much of western & central Europe. In this study, Hywel Williams explores every facet of Charlemagne's rule.
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.