Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe write by José C. Sánchez-Pardo. This book was released on 2015. Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Local churches were an established part of many towns and villages across early medieval Western Europe, and their continued presence make them an invaluable marker for comparing different societies. Up to now, however, the dynamics of power behind church building and the importance of their presence within the landscape have largely been neglected. This book takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of early medieval churches, drawing together archaeology, history, architecture, and landscape studies in order to explore the relationship between church foundation, social power, and political organization across Europe. Key subjects addressed here include the role played by local elites and the importance of the church in buttressing authority, as well as the connections between archaeology and ideology, and the importance of individual church buildings in their broader landscape contexts. Bringing together case-studies from diverse regions across Western Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the British Isles, Denmark, and Iceland), the seventeen contributions to this volume offer new insights into the relationships between church foundations, social power, and political organization. In doing so, they provide a means to better understand social power in the landscape of early medieval Europe.
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages write by Wendy Davies. This book was released on 2002-08-08. Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.
Rituals of Power
Rituals of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals of Power write by Frans Theuws. This book was released on 2021-10-01. Rituals of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 13 papers by 16 leading archaeologists and historians of late antiquity and the early middle ages break new ground in their discussion, analysis and criticism of present interpretations of early medieval rituals and their material correlates. Some deal with rituals relating to death, life cycles and the circulation in other contexts of objects otherwise used in the burial ritual. Others are concerned with the symbolism and ideology of royal power, the formation of a political ideology east of the Rhine from the mid-5th century onwards, and penance rituals in relation to Carolingian episcopal discourse on ecclesiastical power and morale. All deal with the creation of new identities, cultures, norms and values, and their expression in new rituals and ideas from the period of the Great Migrations through the Later Roman Empire down to the society of Beowulf and the later Carolingians.
Early Medieval Italy
Early Medieval Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Medieval Italy write by Chris Wickham. This book was released on 1989. Early Medieval Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the social and economic development of Italy
Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power
Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power write by Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld. This book was released on 1999. Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How was medieval Europe held together? People of dissimilar occupations and economic interests, living in widely separate parts of western Europe, came to recognise and act upon a common set of cultural beliefs. This framework of shared social customs and values, that is distinctively medieval and European, arose from the interaction between secular and ecclesiastical power, but these developments can no longer be convincingly viewed as arising solely from events such as the Wars of Investiture and the Fourth Lateran Council. The historiography of this study shows that the medieval mental framework was not solely concerned with the great struggles between Rome and lay rulers, but neither can we assume that local communities were islands of cohesion in a wider world of chaos and conflict. The case studies presented demonstrate how texts were used as weapons by ecclesiastical authorities in defining their relationships with lay powers. Other studies here focus upon how land and kinship was used to define the social relations between the laity and the clergy.The concluding section concentrates upon the solution of conflicts.
