Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages
Author: Ernest Flagg Henderson
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13:
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Charlemagne's Practice of Empire
Author: Jennifer R. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1316368599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main problems of ruling an empire, namely how to delegate authority and how to manage diversity. Through a meticulous reconstruction based on primary sources, she demonstrates that rather than imposing a pre-existing model of empire onto conquered regions, Charlemagne and his men learned from them, developing a practice of empire that allowed the emperor to rule on a European scale. As a result, Charlemagne's realm was more flexible and diverse than has long been believed. Telling the story of Charlemagne's rule using sources produced during the reign itself, Davis offers a new interpretation of Charlemagne's political practice, free from the distortions of later legend.
Charlemagne's Practice of Empire
Author: Jennifer R. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1107076994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.
The Continuity of the Conquest
Author: Wendy Marie Hoofnagle
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0271077905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the impact of the past on the Normans themselves. The Continuity of the Conquest corrects these oversights. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle explores the Carolingian aspects of Norman influence in England after the Norman Conquest, arguing that the Normans’ literature of kingship envisioned government as a form of imperial rule modeled in many ways on the glories of Charlemagne and his reign. She argues that the aggregate of historical and literary ideals that developed about Charlemagne after his death influenced certain aspects of the Normans’ approach to ruling, including a program of conversion through “allurement,” political domination through symbolic architecture and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the royal forest as an extension of the royal court. An engaging new approach to understanding the nature of Norman identity and the culture of writing and problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history.
Readings in European History
Author: James Harvey Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides primary sources on topics ranging from Ancient Rome to the Revolutions of 1848.
A History of Law in Europe
Author: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 823
ISBN-13: 1107180694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.
Charlemagne
Author: Joanna Story
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005-06-04
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780719070891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses directly on the reign of Charlemagne, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and sources with contributions from fifteen of the top scholars of early medieval Europe. The contributors have taken a number of original approaches to the subject, from the fields of archaeology and numismatics to thoroughly-researched essays on key historical texts. The essays are embedded in the scholarship of recent decades but also offer insights into new areas and new approaches for research. A full bibliography of works in English as well as key reading in European languages is provided, making the volume essential reading for experienced scholars as well as students new to the history of the early middle ages.
The Medieval Book
Author: Barbara A. Shailor
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780802068538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.
King and Emperor
Author: Janet L. Nelson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 0520383214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual curiosity, he was a man of many parts, a warlord and conqueror, a judge who promised 'for each their law and justice', a defender of the Latin Church, a man of flesh-and-blood. In the twelve centuries since his death, warfare, accident, vermin, and the elements have destroyed much of the writing on his rule, but a remarkable amount has survived. Janet Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charles, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives. Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped counties, countries, and continents, founded and rebuilt towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the head of the renewed Roman Empire. His successors--in some ways even up to the present day--have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy, or subvert his legacy.
Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Thomas Faulkner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107084911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the barbarian laws in Carolingian Europe, contributing to debates concerning written law, kingship and ethnic identities.
