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ISBN: 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

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: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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