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Epitaph for an Era is the first major study of the Epitaphium Arsenii, a polemical dialogue defending the courtier Wala's revolt in 830â 833 against Emperor Louis the Pious. Mayke de Jong explores the impact of these controversial rebellions on the ideals and values of the Frankish leadership in the next generation.

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Epitaph for an Era is the first major study of the Epitaphium Arsenii, a polemical dialogue defending the courtier Wala's revolt in 830â 833 against Emperor Louis the Pious. Mayke de Jong explores the impact of these controversial rebellions on the ideals and values of the Frankish leadership in the next generation.
Autorenporträt
Mayke de Jong taught Medieval History at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands from 1987 until her retirement in 2016. She has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Since 1999, she has been a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Publishing widely on the interface between religion and politics in the early Middle Ages, her works include In Samuel's Image (1995), Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages, edited with Frans Theuws and Carine van Rhijn (2001) and The Penitential State (Cambridge, 2009).