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Beschreibung
The profound changes that took place between 800 and 1100 in the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe have long been the subject of vigorous historical controversy. Looking beyond the notion of a 'Feudal Revolution', this book reveals that a radical shift in the patterns of social organisation did occur in this period, but as a continuation of processes unleashed by Carolingian reform, rather than Carolingian political failure. Focusing on the Frankish lands between the rivers Marne and Moselle, Charles West explores the full range of available evidence, including letters, chronicles, estate documents, archaeological excavations and liturgical treatises, to track documentary and social change. He shows how Carolingian reforms worked to formalise interaction across the entire social spectrum, and that the new political and social formations apparent from the later eleventh century should be seen as long-term consequence of this process.
The profound changes that took place between 800 and 1100 in the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe have long been the subject of vigorous historical controversy. Looking beyond the notion of a 'Feudal Revolution', this book reveals that a radical shift in the patterns of social organisation did occur in this period, but as a continuation of processes unleashed by Carolingian reform, rather than Carolingian political failure. Focusing on the Frankish lands between the rivers Marne and Moselle, Charles West explores the full range of available evidence, including letters, chronicles, estate documents, archaeological excavations and liturgical treatises, to track documentary and social change. He shows how Carolingian reforms worked to formalise interaction across the entire social spectrum, and that the new political and social formations apparent from the later eleventh century should be seen as long-term consequence of this process.
Über den Autor
Charles West is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I. The Parameters of Carolingian Society: 1. Institutional integration; 2. Networks of inequality; 3. Carolingian co-ordinations; Part II. The Long Tenth Century, c.880-c.1030: 4. The ebbing of royal power; 5. New hierarchies; Part III. The Exercise of Authority through Property Rights, c.1030-1130: 6. The banality of power; 7. Fiefs, homage, and the 'investiture quarrel'; 8. Upper Lotharingia and Champagne around 1100: unity and diversity; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781316635506
ISBN-10: 1316635503
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: West, Charles
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Charles West
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,469 kg
Artikel-ID: 103506063

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