UID:
almahu_9949703370302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047404040
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9789004117341
Series Statement:
Transformation of the Roman World ; 6
Content:
The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed 'places of power', and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the 'high-level' power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what 'centres of power' may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.
Note:
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
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Acknowledgements Mayke de jong and Frans Theuws -- Abbreviations -- Topographies of power: introduction Chris Wickham -- Cemeteries as places of power Heinrich Harke -- Topography and the creation of public space in early medieval Constantinople Leslie Brubaker -- Topography, celebration and power: the making of a papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monuments and memory: repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul Bonnie Effros -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae, Ann Christys -- Topographies pf holy power in sixth-century Gaul Ian Wood -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle ages Frans Theuws -- Aachen as a place of power Janet L. Nelson -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in seventh-century Francia Regine Le Jan -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a place of power in the early Middle Ages Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and honour in the Frankish kingdoms Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia, Pablo C. Diaz -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century holy place Julia M.H. Smith -- People, places and power in Carolingian society Matthew Innes -- The regia and the hring barbarian places of power Walter Pohl -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in the North Lotte Hedeager -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and its continental contacts Przemyslaw Urba czyk -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions Mayke de jong and Frans Theuws -- Primary Sources -- Literature -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2001 ISBN 9789004117341
Language:
English
