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Royal Marriage Alliances in the Carolingian Empire [Paperback]
Helen Oxenham (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781472586834
Published by : Bloomsbury
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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 scholarsh... .... Learn More -
Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium [Paperback]
John Howe (Author)
£23.95ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
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Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure... .... Learn More -
The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567-822 [Hardback]
Walter Pohl (Author)
£55.95ISBN: 9780801442100
Published by : Cornell University Press
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The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than... .... Learn More -
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus [Hardback]
Alexander O'Hara (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780190858001
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa at the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbi... .... Learn More -
Religion, Politics and the Arts in Early Medieval Italy: Iconophilia [Hardback]
Francesca Dell'Acqua (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780415793728
Published by : Routledge
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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Through case studies examined in a comparative East-West approach, this book analyses how Byzantine iconoclasm (ca. 720s-843) impacted on the West and how it shaped a papal reaction in Rome. The policy on the production and veneration of sacred im... .... Learn More -
Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe [Hardback]
Alexander O'Hara (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780190857967
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions bec... .... Learn More -
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching [Paperback]
David Rollason (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781138936874
Published by : Routledge
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 provides students with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate this complex period. David Rollason identifies the major research questions and historiographical debates and offers guidance on how to en... .... Learn More -
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching [Hardback]
David Rollason (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9781138936867
Published by : Routledge
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 provides students with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate this complex period. David Rollason identifies the major research questions and historiographical debates and offers guidance on how to en... .... Learn More -
Late Antique Calendrical Thought and Its Reception in the Early Middle Ages: Proceedings from the Third International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 16-18 July, 2010 [Paperback]
Daibhi O Croinin (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9782503577098
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae
Volume: 26
Late antique and early medieval science is commonly defined by the quadrivium, the four subjects of the seven liberal arts relating to natural science: astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, and music. The seven-fold division of learning was designed in... .... Learn More -
The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall: Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages [Hardback]
Sven Meeder (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781350038677
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully wri... .... Learn More
