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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: 9781783273751
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 33
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How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the Anglo-Saxon cultural conceptualisation of old age, as manifested and reflected in the t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781108474641
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9780198777601
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781473837423
Published by : Pen & Sword
Simon MacDowall examines how this relatively small group of Germans came to be overlords of all of the former Roman province of Gaul, giving their name to France in the process. From their earliest incursions into the Empire, down to the Battle of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789462987234
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Intellectual and Political History
Volume: 3
German historians long assumed that the German Kingdom was created with Henry the Fowler's coronation in 919. The reigns of both Henry the Fowler, and his son Otto the Great, were studied and researched mainly through Widukind of Corvey's chronicl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781526733962
Published by : Pen & Sword
Alfred the Great's daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention b... .... Learn More