The Social Life Of Hagiography In The Merovingian Kingdom
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Author |
: Jamie Kreiner |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2014-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107050655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107050650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom by : Jamie Kreiner
This book shows how a set of great stories changed the political playing field in an early medieval society.
Author |
: Stefan Esders |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2019-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350048409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350048402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Merovingian Kingdoms and the Mediterranean World by : Stefan Esders
This book explores the Merovingian kingdoms in Gaul within a broader Mediterranean context. Their politics and culture have mostly been interpreted in the past through a narrow local perspective, but as the papers in this volume clearly demonstrate, the Merovingian kingdoms had complicated and multi-layered political, religious, and socio-cultural relations with their Mediterranean counterparts, from Visigothic Spain in the West to the Byzantine Empire in the East, and from Anglo-Saxon England in the North to North-Africa in the South. The papers collected here provide new insights into the history of the Merovingian kingdoms by examining various relevant issues, ranging from identity formation to the shape and rules of diplomatic relations, cultural transformation, as well as voiced attitudes towards the “other”. Each of the papers begins with a short excerpt from a primary source, which serves as a stimulus for the discussion of broader issues. The various sources' point of view and their contextualization stand at the heart of the analysis, thus ensuring that discussions are accessible to students and non-specialists, without jeopardizing the high academic standard of the debate.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2019-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004417472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004417478 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500 by :
The twenty-one essays of Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500 employ innovative methods to unlock the historical potential of hagiographical sources and reach new discoveries about the medieval world that extend well beyond the study of sanctity.
Author |
: Bonnie Effros |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 1166 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190234188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190234180 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World by : Bonnie Effros
Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.
Author |
: E. T. Dailey |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2015-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004294660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 900429466X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite by : E. T. Dailey
Gregory of Tours hoped to inspire the believers in sixth-century Gaul with examples of righteous and wicked deeds and their consequences. Critiquing his own society, Gregory contrasted vengeful queens, rebellious nuns, and conniving witches with pious widows, humble abbesses, and tearful saints. By examining his thematic treatment of topics including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, authority, and political agency, Queens, Consorts, Concubines reassesses the material shaped by such concerns, including e.g. Gregory’s accounts of Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund, and other important elite women, Merovingian political policies (marital alliances, ecclesiastical intrigue, even assassinations), and seemingly unrelated topics such as Hermenegild’s rebellion and the career of Empress Sophia. The result: a new interpretation of an important witness to the transformations of Late Antiquity.
Author |
: Yaniv Fox |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2014-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316061749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316061744 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul by : Yaniv Fox
This study is the first to attempt a thorough investigation of the activities of the Columbanian congregation, which played a significant role in the development of Western monasticism. This was a new form of rural monasticism, which suited the needs and aspirations of a Christian elite eager to express its power and prestige in religious terms. Contrary to earlier studies, which viewed Columbanus and his disciples primarily as religious innovators, this book focuses on the political, economic, and familial implications of monastic patronage and on the benefits elite patrons stood to reap. While founding families were in a privileged position to court royal favour, monastic patronage also exposed them to violent reprisals from competing factions. Columbanian monasteries were not serene havens of contemplation, but rather active foci of power and wealth, and quickly became integral elements of early medieval statecraft.
Author |
: Stefan Esders |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2019-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107187153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110718715X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis East and West in the Early Middle Ages by : Stefan Esders
This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.
Author |
: Steffen Patzold |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2016-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110444483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110444488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men in the Middle by : Steffen Patzold
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole.
Author |
: Yaniv Fox |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2023-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009285032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009285033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition by : Yaniv Fox
The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium. This expert commentary is for scholars interested in early medieval history and historiography.
Author |
: Yaniv Fox |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2014-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107064591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107064597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul by : Yaniv Fox
This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.