Clovis: Le Baptême de Clovis, son écho à travers l'histoire
Author: Michel Rouche
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13:
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Creating the Monastic Past in Medieval Flanders
Author: Karine Ugé
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1903153166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamination of the self-produced histories of a number of religious communities, tracing out the complex reasons for their composition. The creation of a past for themselves was of pressing importance to religious communities, enabling them to increase their status and legitimise their existence. This book examines the process in a group of communities from the southern part of Flanders (the monks of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer, the community of Saint-Rictrude at Marchiennes and the canons of Saint-Amé at Douai) over a period running from the ninth to the end of the eleventh century. The central contention is that the communities produced their narratives (history, hagiography, charter materials) for a specific time and purpose, frequently as a response to or intended resolution of internal or external crises. The book also discusses how the circumstances which triggered narrative production had an impact not only on the content but also on the form of the texts.
The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition
Author: Yaniv Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1009285033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Constructing kingship
Author: James Naus
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1526100452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination. For this reason, it can be easy to forget that European rulers were not always eager participants in holy war. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, and yet the first monarch did not join the movement until 1146, when the French king Louis VII took the cross to lead the Second Crusade. One contemporary went so far as to compare the crusades to 'Creation and man's redemption on the cross', so what impact did fifty years of non-participation have on the image and practice of European kingship and the parameters of cultural development? This book considers this question by examining the challenge to political authority that confronted the French kings and their family members as a direct result of their failure to join the early crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later ones.
Valery's Graveyard Le Cimetiere Marin, Translated, Described, and Peopled
Author: Hugh P. McGrath
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781433113345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the basis of the French text and a translation that is at once accurate and poetical, this book provides an introduction to the poem, Le Cimetière marin, and thereby to the complex intellectual world of Valéry. A valuable resource for scholars, Valéry's Graveyard is accessible to all serious readers. As it does not require a knowledge of French, the book is suitable for study in any course on modern literature.
The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century
Author: Kevin James Lewis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1317052609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called ‘crusader states’ established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The present work is the first monograph on the county to be published in English, and the first in any western language since 1945. What little has been written on the subject previously has focused upon the European ancestry of the counts of Tripoli: a specifically Southern French heritage inherited from the famous crusader Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles. Kevin Lewis argues that past historians have at once exaggerated the political importance of the counts’ French descent and ignored the more compelling signs of its cultural impact, highlighting poetry composed by troubadours in Occitan at Tripoli’s court. For Lewis, however, even this belies a deeper understanding of the processes that shaped the county. What emerges is an intriguing portrait of the county in which its rulers struggled to exert their power over Lebanon in the face of this region’s insurmountable geographical forces and its sometimes bewildering, always beguiling diversity of religions, languages and cultures. The counts of Tripoli and contemporary Muslim onlookers certainly viewed the dynasty as sons of Saint-Gilles, but the county’s administration relied upon Arabic, its stability upon the mixed loyalties of its local inhabitants, and its very existence upon the rugged mountains that cradled it. This book challenges prevailing knowledge of this little-known crusader state and by extension the medieval Middle East as a whole. .
The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia
Author: Alberto Ferreiro
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-11-30
Total Pages: 943
ISBN-13: 9047408187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography is a supplement to the one previously published by Brill in 1988. This one covers material from 1984 to 2003. The chronology has been expanded to begin in the fourth century. Numerous Iberian Church Fathers not represented in the first one are now incorporated. The book contains author and subject indexes and is cross-referenced throughout.
Clovis
Author: Michel Rouche
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 956
ISBN-13: 9782840500797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Waxing of the Middle Ages
Author: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2023-04-14
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1644532921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period. The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.
Writing the Early Crusades
Author: Marcus Graham Bull
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1843839202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Crusade (1095-1101) was the stimulus for a substantial boom in Western historical writing in the first decades of the twelfth century, beginning with the so-called "eyewitness" accounts of the crusade and extending to numerous second-hand treatments in prose and verse. From the time when many of these accounts were first assembled in printed form by Jacques Bongars in the early seventeenth century, and even more so since their collective appearance in the great nineteenth-century compendium of crusade texts, the Recueil des historiens des croisades, narrative histories have come to be regarded as the single most important resource for the academic study of the early crusade movement. But our understanding of these texts is still far from satisfactory. This ground-breaking volume draws together the work of an international team of scholars. It tackles the disjuncture between the study of the crusades and the study of medieval history-writing, setting the agenda for future research into historical narratives about or inspired by crusading. The basic premise that informs all the papers is that narrative accounts of crusades and analogous texts should not be primarily understood as repositories of data that contribute to a reconstruction of events, but as cultural artefacts that can be interrogated from a wide range of theoretical, methodological and thematic perspectives. MARCUS BULL is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; DAMIEN KEMPF is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. Contributors: Laura Ashe, Steven Biddlecombe, Marcus Bull, Peter Frankopan, Damian Kempf, James Naus, L an N Chl irigh, Nicholas Paul, William J. Purkis, Luigi Russo, Jay Rubenstein, Carol Sweetenham,
