[PDF] History Frankish Identity And The Framing Of Western Ethnicity 550 850 eBook

Author : Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1316381021

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This 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 : Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107032334

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This 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 : Yaniv Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107064597

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This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.

Author : Charles West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107028868

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This book revisits the idea of a 'Feudal Revolution' in Europe between 800 and 1100, examining the causes of profound socio-economic change.

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Publisher : Medieval Chronicle
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004471467

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Medieval 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 : Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 21,7 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 : Gregory I. Halfond
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501739352

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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.

Author : Clemens Gantner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 24,70 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004417478

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The twenty-one essays of Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500 employ innovative methods to unlock the historical potential of hagiographical sources and reach new discoveries about the medieval world that extend well beyond the study of sanctity.