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1 online resource (x, 609 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; v. 6 |
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Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
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 of 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 Urbarczyk -- Topographies of Power : Some conclusions / Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-597) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Middle Ages -- Congresses
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Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses
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HISTORY.
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Middle Ages
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Power (Social sciences)
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Repräsentation
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Macht
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Macht.
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Symbolen.
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Ruimtelijke structuur.
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História da europa.
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História medieval.
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Poder.
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Europa
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Bellegio <1998>
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Theuws, F. (Frans)
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Jong, Mayke De.
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Rhijn, Carine van
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| ISBN |
1429407034 |
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9781429407038 |
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9789004117341 |
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9004117342 |
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1280914580 |
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9781280914584 |
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9786610914586 |
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6610914583 |
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9047404041 |
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9789047404040 |
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