Charlemagne

Empire and society
Herausgeber: Story, Joanna

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen introductory but challenging essays on the key aspects of the age of Charlemagne written by many of the top scholars of early medieval Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780719070891
• ISBN-10: 0719070899
• Artikelnr.: 21243194

Autorenporträt

Joanna Story is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Joanna Story 1. The long shadow of the Merovingians
Paul Fouracre 2. Charlemagne the Man
Janet L. Nelson 3. Einhard's Charlemagne: the characterization of greatness
David Ganz 4. Charlemagne's imperial coronation and the Annals of Lorsch
Roger Collins 5. What was Charlemagne's government?
Matthew Innes 6. The Captains and the Kings: the aristocracy in Charlemagne's reign
Stuart Airlie 7. Charlemagne's Church
Mayke de Jong 8. Three 'Men of God' in Charlemagne's service: Alcuin, Hildebald, Arno
Donald Bullough 9. The Carolingian renaissance of culture and learning
Rosamond McKitterick 10. Charlemagne and the renewal of Rome
Neil Christie 11. Charlemagne and the world beyond the Rhine
Timothy Reuter 12. Charlemagne and the Anglo
Saxons
Joanna Story 13. Charlemagne's coinage: ideology and economy
Simon Coupland 14. Rural settlement hierarchy in the age of Charlemagne
Christopher Loveluck 15. Urban developments in the age of Charlemagne
Frans Verhaeghe