Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe
-
- $87.99
-
- $87.99
Publisher Description
A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty's attempts to consolidate its power through war and rewards. The second section focuses on the exercise of authority through a complex system of governance and representation, and the pivotal role played by the courts of Charlemagne and his successors. In the third section, we see the Carolingian system undergoing a crisis of legitimacy, challenged by civil war, royal divorce, and aristocratic encroachment on dynastic exclusivity. These essays anatomise the dynamics of power relations in the greatest empire of the early medieval west.
More Books Like This
More Books by Stuart Airlie
Other Books in This Series
Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
2023
Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance
2023
Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers
2023
Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics
2023
Related Worlds - Studies in Jewish and Arab Ancient and Early Medieval History
2023
The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress
2023