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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: 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

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: 9789004342644
Published by : Brill
Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice
Volume: 27
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In A Raven's Battle-cry Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691184647
Published by : Princeton University Press
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A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hound... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
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: 9780801442100
Published by : Cornell University Press
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: 9789004349483
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 50
The collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire offers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters... .... Learn More