Poetry Patronage And Politics Epic Saints Lives In Western Francia 800 1000
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Poetry Patronage And Politics Epic Saints Lives In Western Francia 800 1000
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Author : Anna Lisa Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Poetry Patronage And Politics Epic Saints Lives In Western Francia 800 1000 written by Anna Lisa Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Monastic authors in western Francia during the central Middle Ages composed and exchanged Latin verse saints' lives (vitae metricae ) to create communities of saints, emperors, bishops, teachers, and students. These epic poems were sent to patons, excerpted in liturgy, and read in the classroom. By writing vitae metricae, the monks enhanced their own prestige, promoted their saints, flattered their patrons, and aggrandized their abbeys.
The Merovingians In Historiographical Tradition
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Author : Yaniv Fox
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
The Merovingians In Historiographical Tradition written by Yaniv Fox and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with History categories.
The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe. The memory of the first dynasty of Frankish kings, their origin myths, accomplishments, and failures were used by generations of chroniclers, propagandists, and historians to justify a wide range of social and political agendas. The process of curating and editing the source material gave rise to a recognisable 'Merovingian narrative' with three distinct phases: meteoric ascent, stasis, and decline. Already in the seventh-century Chronicle of Fredegar, this tripartite model was invoked by a Merovingian queen to prophesy the fate of her descendants. This expert commentary sets out to understand how the story of the Merovingians was shaped through a process of continuous historiographical adaptation. It examines authors from across a millennium of historical writing and analyses their influences and objectives, charting the often-unexpected ways in which their narratives were received and developed.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Dissertation Abstracts International written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Dissertations, Academic categories.
The Inheritance Of Rome
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Author : Chris Wickham
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-01-29
The Inheritance Of Rome written by Chris Wickham and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-29 with History categories.
The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense ‘dark age’ has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians. How could a world still so profoundly shaped by Rome and which encompassed such remarkable societies as the Byzantine, Carolingian and Ottonian empires, be anything other than central to the development of European history? How could a world of so many peoples, whether expanding, moving or stable, of Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, whose genetic and linguistic inheritors we all are, not lie at the heart of how we understand ourselves? The Inheritance of Rome is a work of remarkable scope and ambition. Drawing on a wealth of new material, it is a book which will transform its many readers’ ideas about the crucible in which Europe would in the end be created. From the collapse of the Roman imperial system to the establishment of the new European dynastic states, perhaps this book’s most striking achievement is to make sense of an immensely long period of time, experienced by many generations of Europeans, and which, while it certainly included catastrophic invasions and turbulence, also contained long periods of continuity and achievement. From Ireland to Constantinople, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, this is a genuinely Europe-wide history of a new kind, with something surprising or arresting on every page.
The Engineer
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
The Engineer written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with Engineering categories.
Matecumbe
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Author : James A Michener
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2007-09-09
Matecumbe written by James A Michener and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-09 with Fiction categories.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener was in his sixties when he began traveling frequently to the Florida Keys. One result of those visits was the novel Matecumbe, named after two of the islands that comprise the town of Islamorada, located approximately half way between Miami and Key West. Never before published, Matecumbe features many of the hallmarks of Michener's best work, including detailed descriptions of place. However, the plot is much more intimate than that found in most of his large-scale, epic historical novels. Focusing on the parallel lives of a woman and her mother, both divorced, Michener spent his creative energy on character development and allegorical storytelling. Random House, his publisher, wasn't pleased, and wanted the mega-best-selling author to concentrate on producing "heavyweight" books like Hawaii and Centennial. Matecumbe seemed too much in the vein of his earlier romance novel, Sayonara. So it sat in a drawer until, eventually, Michener gifted it--including the copyright--to Joe Avenick, his friend and former ghostwriter. Avenick played a key role in the research and writing of Sports in America and Chesapeake, and introduced Michener to Melissa (Missy) DeMaio, who soon became the primary reason for Michener's increasingly frequent visits to the Keys. Biographers and critics have long agreed that Michener's personality and his characters were both affected by his relationship with DeMaio. As perhaps his most encompassing autobiographical novel, and the one written in the midst of these changes, Matecumbe provides what may be tantalizing glimpses into Michener's life.
The Middle Ages In 50 Objects
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Author : Elina Gertsman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-31
The Middle Ages In 50 Objects written by Elina Gertsman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Art categories.
The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath
Medieval Ireland
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Author : Clare Downham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-07
Medieval Ireland written by Clare Downham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-07 with History categories.
Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.
Carolingian Catalonia
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Author : Cullen J. Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10
Carolingian Catalonia written by Cullen J. Chandler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with History categories.
Traces the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March and revises traditional interpretations of Catalonia's political and constitutional history.
The Man In The Panther S Skin
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Author : Shota Rustaveli
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
The Man In The Panther S Skin written by Shota Rustaveli and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Poetry categories.
This epic by the Georgian poet Rust'haveli has been the book of a nation for 700 years. It was expected that the text, based on a Persian original and reflecting Georgia's position as a crossroads between east and west, would be memorized by all female members of the country's aristocracy.