Download or read book From Ducatus to Regnum written by Carl I. Hammer and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bavaria was a very important country during the early Middle Ages.Its territory included much of the modern German state but also reached across the Alps into what are now Austria and northern Italy.Bavaria thus occupied a strategic position between the rival kingdoms of the Franks and the Langobards.It was ruled by powerful dukes who had close political and personal relations with the Frankish rulers but who also vigorously resisted attempts to limit their own sovereignty.Bavaria's independence was ended in 788 by Charlemagne who deposed his cousin, Duke Tassilo.Charlemagne's son, the Emperor Louis the Pious, then established Bavaria as the first monarchy east of the river Rhine for his own son, Ludwig the German.This is the first full study of the entire evolution of Bavarian rule from the mid-sixth century into the early ninth century It explores the changing strategies adopted by its dukes and then its first king to establish their authority and maintain their autonomy in face of evolving challenges to their rule.An Epilogue continues the story into the early tenth century. Carl I. Hammer graduated from Amherst College (B.A.) and the University of Toronto (Ph.D.) and also studied at the universities of Munich, Chicago and Oxford.After a career in international business with Westinghouse and Daimler-Benz, he is now retired.He has published two other scholarly books on early-medieval Bavaria and numerous articles in academic journals in N. America and Europe.He lives in Pittsburgh.
Download or read book Charlemagne s Early Campaigns 768 777 written by Bernard Bachrach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlemagne's Early Campaigns is the first book-length study of Charlemagne at war. The neglect of this subject has truncated our understanding of the Carolingian empire and the military success of its leader, a true equal of Frederick the Great and Napoleon.
Download or read book Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul written by Yaniv Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII written by William Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales. Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.
Download or read book Charlemagne written by Johannes Fried and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have equaled. Living in an age of faith, Charlemagne was above all a Christian king, Fried says. He made his court in Aix-la-Chapelle the center of a religious and intellectual renaissance, enlisting the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin of York to be his personal tutor, and insisting that monks be literate and versed in rhetoric and logic. He erected a magnificent cathedral in his capital, decorating it lavishly while also dutifully attending Mass every morning and evening. And to an extent greater than any ruler before him, Charlemagne enhanced the papacy’s influence, becoming the first king to enact the legal principle that the pope was beyond the reach of temporal justice—a decision with fateful consequences for European politics for centuries afterward. Though devout, Charlemagne was not saintly. He was a warrior-king, intimately familiar with violence and bloodshed. And he enjoyed worldly pleasures, including physical love. Though there are aspects of his personality we can never know with certainty, Fried paints a compelling portrait of a ruler, a time, and a kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called “the father of Europe.”
Download or read book Networks of bishops networks of texts written by Gianmarco de Angelis and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first one in a collection connected to the PRIN project on Ruling in hard times. Patterns of Power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy. Its focus lays on bishops and their networks of relationships in late-8th and 9th-century Italy. The episcopal contribution to the inclusion of the Lombard kingdom in the Carolingian social and political landscape is especially analyzed from the perspective of the cultural exchanges (of ideas, texts, and manuscripts) that bishops created or used to carry out their public and pastoral duties. Each paper focuses on a specific episcopal figure or area, reconstructing the scope and extent of the relationships of which they were the pivot. The aim is to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the cultural networks that crossed Carolingian Italy and the ways in which bishops shaped and made use of them.
Download or read book The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda C 744 c 900 written by Janneke Raaijmakers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-integrated and sophisticated investigation into the development of religious life in an influential early medieval monastic community.
Download or read book A Companion to Boniface written by Michel Aaij and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the life, historical and political impacts, and textual sources associated with the early medieval English missionary and church reformer Boniface, who was active in the eighth century in what is today Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
Download or read book A catalogue of great small mappes of countryes cittyes rare cuttes on bookes written by Nicolaus Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1670 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Dublin to which is Added a List of the Fagel Collection of Maps in the Same Library written by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality written by Ann E. Zimo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called infidels, and the list goes on. If so many inhabitants of medieval Europe can be qualified as "marginal," it is important to interrogate where the margins lay and what it means that the majority of people occupied them. In addition, we scholars need to reexamine our use of a term that seems to have such broad applicability to ensure that we avoid imposing marginality on groups in the Middle Ages that the era itself may not have considered as such. In the medieval era, when belonging to a community was vitally important, people who lived on the margins of society could be particularly vulnerable. And yet, as scholars have shown, we ought not forget that this heightened vulnerability sometimes prompted so-called marginals to form their own communities, as a way of redefining the center and placing themselves within it. The present volume explores the concept of marginality, to whom the moniker has been applied, to whom it might usefully be applied, and how we might more meaningfully define marginality based on historical sources rather than modern assumptions. Although the volume’s geographic focus is Europe, the chapters look further afield to North Africa, the Sahara, and the Levant acknowledging that at no time, and certainly not in the Middle Ages, was Europe cut off from other parts of the globe.
Download or read book Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII written by William Campbell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VIII written by William Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance Politics and Culture written by Jonathan Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the work of Robert Black. These essays analyze education, humanism, political thought, printing, and the visual arts during this key period in their development.
Download or read book A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress with Bibliographical Notes written by Philip Lee Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
