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ISBN: 9780935995213
Published by : Cornell University Press
In Language of Power, Viðar Pálsson addresses pre-modern European power relationships that provide the context for narratives of feasts and exchanges of gifts so conspicuous in the Icelandic sagas. Viðar's point of departure considers "compar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107434134
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Char... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780719091032
Published by : Manchester University Press
Series: Manchester Medieval Sources
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861933440
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In the early eighth century, the Muslim general Tariq ibn Ziyad led his forces across the Straits of Gibraltar and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula. Yet alongside the flourishing kingdom of al-Andalus, the small Christian realm of Asturias-... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198704058
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 offers a substantially new interpretation of what happened to slavery in Western Europe in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated wit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198800101
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dyna... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781316648988
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 101
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198797586
Published by : Oxford University Press
Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais. Frankish Christianity required obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, voluntary participation in reform, and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781501705779
Published by : Cornell University Press
Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Vik... .... Learn More