[PDF] A Different Perspective On The Carolingian Economy eBook

Author : Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521004749

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Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1989-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521315654

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Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.

Author : Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521563666

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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.

Author : Valerie L. Garver
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801460174

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Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004380132

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The collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the significance of the early medieval period for scholarly and public discourses in the Western Balkans and Central Europe, and the transfer of knowledge between local scholarship and macro-narratives of Mediterranean and Western history. Other essays explore the ways local communities around the Adriatic (Istria, Dalmatia, Dalmatian hinterland, southern Pannonia) established and maintained social networks and integrated foreign cultural templates into their existing cultural habitus. Contributors are Mladen Ančić, Ivan Basić, Goran Bilogrivić, Neven Budak, Florin Curta, Danijel Dzino, Krešimir Filipec, Richard Hodges, Nikola Jakšić, Miljenko Jurković, Ante Milošević, Marko Petrak, Peter Štih, Trpimir Vedriš.

Author : Arthur Westwell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1526149540

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The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of ‘reform’ or ‘renaissance’, where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio. This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite. However, attention to understudied texts and manuscripts of the period reveals a vibrant striving for moral improvement and positive change at all levels of society. This expressed itself in a variety of ways for different individuals and communities, whose personal relationships could be just as influential as top-down prescription. The often anonymous creators and copyists in a huge range of centres emerge as active participants in shaping and re-shaping the ideals of their world. A much more dynamic picture of Carolingian culture emerges when we widen our perspective to include sources from beyond royal circles and intellectual elites. This book reveals that the Carolingian age did not witness a coherent programme of reform, nor one distinct to this period and dependent exclusively on the strength of royal power. Rather, it formed a particularly intense, well-funded and creative chapter in the much longer history of moral improvement for the sake of collective salvation.

Author : Clemens Gantner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108840779

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Offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected history of ninth-century Italy and the impact of Carolingian culture.

Author : Joshua Holo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521856337

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Covers the middle Byzantine period, describing the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy via primary sources.