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ISBN: 9781472586834
Published by : Bloomsbury
Royal Marriage Alliances in the Carolingian Empire is a concise guide to marriage practices and alliances in the Frankish kingdoms during the period of Carolingian rule in Europe, AD 751-987. Taking into account previous scholarship on the subject... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198813590
Published by : Oxford University Press
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This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bib... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781789251609
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized craft... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107014312
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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Wala, abbot of Corbie, played a major role in the rebellions against Emperor Louis the Pious, especially in 830, for which he was exiled. Radbert defended his beloved abbot, known to his monks as Arsenius, against accusations of infidelity in an '... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273669
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: Volume 34
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Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal authority, scribes, and dealers in real estate. But what set priests apart from the society in which they lived was the authority to provide pastora... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783274116
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: Volume 15
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Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts, and shedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted stone monuments of Anglo-Saxon Eng... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781788541800
Published by : Head of Zeus
Series: The Landmark Library
Volume: 14
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The Book of Kells is a mystery. It is distinct from all copies of the gospels from the early Middle Ages, not only in the quality and amount of its decoration but also in the peculiarities of the ordering of its contents, the oddness of its appara... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780472131396
Published by : University of Michigan Press
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Laura E. Wangerin challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire's rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal and imperial diplomas, manuscript illuminations, and histories, Ottonian kingship and the administration of ju... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781350048386
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
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This book explores the Merovingian kingdoms in Gaul within a broader Mediterranean context. Their politics and culture have mostly been interpreted in the past through a narrow local perspective, but as the papers in this volume clearly demonstrat... .... Learn More