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A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire
Av David Gwynn
Inbunden, 2007
2563 kr
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The appearance in 1964 of A.H.M. Jones’ The Later Roman Empire 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey transformed the study of the Late Antique world. In this volume a number of leading scholars reassess the impact of Jones’ great work, the influences that shaped his scholarship, …
Noble Lord, Good Shepherd
Episcopal Power and Piety in Aquitaine, 877-1050
Inbunden, 2009
2591 kr
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The bishop was a figure of unparalleled importance in the tenth and eleventh centuries, as he married the advantages of his noble birth to the sacramental and pastoral role of bishop, drawing upon the resultant range of powers to intervene in all areas of life. Scholarship on the episcopate in this …
Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul
Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009
Av Guy Halsall
Inbunden, 2009
3299 kr
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Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships between documentary history and archaeology while the subsequent articles cover the interpretation of …
Die liturgische Gegenwart des abwesenden Königs
Gebetsverbrüderung und Hersscherbild im frühen Mittelalter
Inbunden, 2010
3425 kr
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It has for decades been part of the canon of maxims of basic research that most images of rulers in early medieval book illustrations have been transmitted in liturgical manuscripts, i.e. manuscripts originally intended for divine worship. There have however to date been few investigations which …
Age of Saints?
Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments when those same processes were resisted and challenged. …
Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain
Religion and Power in the Histories of Isidore of Seville
Av Jamie Wood
Inbunden, 2012
2620 kr
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Previous scholarship has interpreted Bishop Isidore of Seville (d. 636) retrospectively as the architect of the medieval Spanish church, as the father of Spanish identity, and as a key figure in the transmission of Classical and Patristic learning to the Middle Ages. Drawing on recent studies on …
Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia
Comparative Approaches
Av Eirik Hovden
Inbunden, 2016
2931 kr
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This volume explores some of the many different meanings of community across medieval Eurasia. How did the three ‘universal’ religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, frame the emergence of various types of community under their sway? The studies assembled here in thematic clusters address the …
Land of the English Kin
Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke
Inbunden, 2020
2537 kr
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This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship’s most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine …
Languages of Early Medieval Charters
Latin, Germanic Vernaculars, and the Written Word
Inbunden, 2020
2715 kr
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This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records. Building on previous work on the uses of the written word in the early Middle Ages, which has dispelled the myth that this was an age of ‘orality’, the contributions in this volume bring …
Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes
The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople
Inbunden, 2022
2366 kr
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The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. This interdisciplinary study draws on new manuscript evidence to finally …
Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity
Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul
Inbunden, 2022
2042 kr
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A wandering “Orpheus among the barbarians,” a lively flatterer of the powerful and an appreciator of good food and pleasant company: the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus is known to us today for being all these things. Yet in the Middle Ages people knew and loved “Fortunatus the priest:” a …
Old Names, New Peoples: Listing Ethnonyms in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2023
2042 kr
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No people is nameless, and lists of words are as old as writing systems. And yet, both subjects can appear unpromising to historians. This volume shows the contrary by examining the various meanings and functions of ethnonyms in Late Antiquity: added to catalogues of provinces, they reflect the …
Storyworlds in Short Narratives
Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales
Inbunden, 2024
1943 kr
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This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary …
Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses
Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Inbunden, 2025
1742 kr
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The Byzantine Empire faced many threats, but few were as great as the events of the sixth and seventh centuries, when paranoia, plagues, and wars threatened to tear the empire apart. Like today, prophets predicted horrors to come while preachers called on their congregations to repent. This book …
Living in a Carolingian World
Inbunden, 2025
2300 kr
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Living in a Carolingian World invites you to look beyond kings, bishops, and court politics to explore the diverse historical experiences and conceptions of the Carolingian non-elite. Through case studies and new research, this volume presents a range of Carolingian worlds that demonstrate the …
Perceiving War and the Military in Early Christian Gaul (ca. 400–700 A.D.)
Av Laury Sarti
Inbunden, 2013
2314 kr
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The passage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages has been largely studied in the light of the thesis of a gradual transformation, which is in contradiction of the previous assumption of an abrupt break due to war and general calamity. Perceiving War and the Military reassesses this historical period …
