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Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-29
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521534369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
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Publisher: Medieval Chronicle
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789004471467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval chronicles are significant sources not just for the study of history, but also for the fields of literature, linguistics and art history. These papers, with broad chronological and geographical range, represent current approaches in the study of medieval historiography.
Author: Bernhard Walter Scholz
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780472061860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire
Author: Helmut Reimitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-06
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1316381021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success of the Frankish kingdoms provided the medieval West with fundamental political, religious and social structures, including a change from the Roman perspective on ethnicity as the quality of the 'Other' to the Carolingian perception that a variety of Christian peoples were chosen by God to reign over the former Roman provinces. Interpreting identity as an open-ended process, Helmut Reimitz explores the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts through which societies tried to find order in the rapidly changing post-Roman world.
Author: D. N. Dumville
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780859911177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin translation, uncorrupted by the chronological dislocation which has affected every other text.
Author: Walter Goffart
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780802007797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays deals with a broad range of issues within the study, past and present, of the early Middle Ages. Subjects include war, power, ethnicity, gender, Charlemagne and Carolingian history. The book is largely concerned with reading the sources, both medieval and modern, and interpreting their narrators.
Author: Martin Wihoda
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-08-26
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1498568432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the distant origins of medieval Central Europe have enjoyed constant interest among historians, only marginal attention has been paid to the power and political prerequisites for the first Westernization, i.e. the gradual adoption of the values, norms and patterns of behavior of the Latin West by the communities (gentes) around the eastern edge of the Carolingian and subsequently Holy Roman Empires. Such a gap in knowledge, long overlooked, is now being filled by The Making of Medieval Central Europe: Power and Political Prerequisites for the First Westernization, 791-1122. While respecting the state of research and based on an original analysis of the sources, this book offers an informed reflection of a complex dialogue that was initiated after the collapse of the Avar Khaganate at the end of the 8th century and that, by the beginning of the 12th century, gave rise to a Central Europe that was Westernized (i.e. turned toward the West) yet in many ways distinctive. Another and no less important added value of this book is the author's conscious effort to overcome the narrow interpretive matrices defined by the national interests of the time.
Author: Helmut Reimitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-06
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1107032334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success of the Frankish kingdoms provided the medieval West with fundamental political, religious and social structures, including a change from the Roman perspective on ethnicity as the quality of the 'Other' to the Carolingian perception that a variety of Christian peoples were chosen by God to reign over the former Roman provinces. Interpreting identity as an open-ended process, Helmut Reimitz explores the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts through which societies tried to find order in the rapidly changing post-Roman world.
Author: Walter Pohl
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 1501729403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on sedentary civilizations." ― Choice The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than Attila's Huns, yet have remained hidden in history. Walter Pohl's epic narrative, translated into English for the first time, restores them to their rightful place in the story of early medieval Europe. The Avars offers a comprehensive overview of their history, tracing the Avars from the construction of their steppe empire in the center of Europe; their wars and alliances with the Byzantines, Slavs, Lombards, and others; their apex as the first so-called barbarian power to besiege Constantinople (in 626); to their fall under the Frankish armies of Charlemagne and subsequent disappearance as a distinct cultural group. Pohl uncovers the secrets of their society, synthesizing the rich archaeological record recovered from more than 60,000 graves of the period, as well as accounts of the Avars by Byzantine and other chroniclers. In recovering the story of the fascinating encounter between Eurasian nomads who established an empire in the heart of Europe and the post-Roman Christian cultures of Europe, this book provides a new perspective on the origins of medieval Europe itself.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9004498788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval chronicles are significant sources not just for the study of history, but also for the fields of literature, linguistics and art history. These papers, with broad chronological and geographical range, represent current approaches in the study of medieval historiography.
