Topographies of Power in the Early Middle AgesFrans Theuws, Mayke B. de Jong, Carine Van Rhijn BRILL, 2001 - 609 páginas The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed 'places of power', and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the 'high-level' power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what 'centres of power' may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power. |
Contenido
Topography and the creation of public space in early | 31 |
the making of | 45 |
Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae | 119 |
Topographies of holy power in sixthcentury Gaul | 137 |
Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages | 155 |
Aachen as a place of power | 217 |
Convents violence and competition for power | 243 |
SaintMaurice dAgaune as | 271 |
honour in the Frankish kingdoms | 307 |
seventhcentury Gallaecia | 329 |
People places and power in Carolingian society | 399 |
power | 442 |
The lower Vistula area as a region of power | 509 |
Some conclusions | 533 |
Primary sources | 547 |
Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion | 291 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages Mayke de Jong,Frans Theuws Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages Frans Theuws,Mayke De Jong,Carine van Rhijn Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aachen Agaune al-Andalus ancient Anglo-Saxon Annales Archaeology Argentea aristocratic Balthild basilica bishop burial Byzantine Cambridge Carolingian cemeteries central centre Charlemagne charters Christian church Columbanus Constantinople context Cordoba cult cultural Dumio early medieval early Middle Ages Ebroin eighth century Einhard elite episcopal Europe evidence Frankish Fulda Gallaecia Gaul Geschichte Gesta Gregory of Tours Gudme Hannover Heppenheim holy idem J.L. Nelson king Krusch landscape late Antiquity Liège London Lorsch Louis the Pious Lundeborg Maastricht Mainz Merovingian Meuse MGH SRM Mittelalter monastery monastic monks ninth century Oxford pagan palace papal Paris Pippin Pippinids places of power Pohl political pope Redon region Regula communis relics religious ritual Roman Rome royal rulers sacred Sadalberga saints sancti seventh century siècle social society sources space Studien texts Theuws tion Tongres topography tradition transl urban Vita William of Rubruck