Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World - 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 Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World write by Patrick Wormald. This book was released on 2011-03-03. Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did the laity have a part in the Carolingian Renaissance? If so, how were lay elites, and through them the laity at large affected? This fascinating and wide-ranging volume examines these questions through a study of lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in early medieval Europe. Leading historians explore a diverse range of Latin and vernacular texts written by secular authors and use richly drawn case studies to illuminate such key issues as the extent of lay literacy, the contexts in which learned laity could flourish, the transformative impact of the Carolingian Renaissance, and the interaction of 'lay' and 'clerical' values on both sides of the Channel. This volume demonstrates that the learned laity, both women as well as men, contributed much more as writers and patrons to early medieval culture than was previously thought and it will be essential reading for scholars of Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon history.
The Carolingian World
The Carolingian World - 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 The Carolingian World write by Marios Costambeys. This book was released on 2011-05-12. The Carolingian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Making and Unmaking the Carolingians
Making and Unmaking the Carolingians - 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 Making and Unmaking the Carolingians write by Stuart Airlie. This book was released on 2020-12-24. Making and Unmaking the Carolingians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does power manifest itself in individuals? Why do people obey authority? And how does a family, if they are the source of such dominance, convey their superiority and maintain their command in a pre-modern world lacking speedy communications, standing armies and formalised political jurisdiction? Here, Stuart Airlie expertly uses this idea of authority as a lens through which to explore one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Europe: the Carolingians. Ruling the Frankish realm from 751 to 888, the family of Charlemagne had to be ruthless in asserting their status and adept at creating a discourse of Carolingian legitimacy in order to sustain their supremacy. Through its nuanced analysis of authority, politics and family, Making and Unmaking the Carolingians, 751-888 outlines the system which placed the Carolingian dynasty at the centre of the Frankish world. In doing so, Airlie sheds important new light on both the rise and fall of the Carolingian empire and the nature of power in medieval Europe more generally.
Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
Documentary Culture and the Laity 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 Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages write by Warren Brown. This book was released on 2013. Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World - 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 Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World write by Valerie L. Garver. This book was released on 2012-05-08. Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.
