Making Early Medieval Societies

Herausgeber: Cooper, Kate; Leyser, Conrad

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the fundamental question of what held the societies of the post-Roman world together.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781316503607
• ISBN-10: 1316503607
• Artikelnr.: 49446148

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: making early medieval societies Conrad Leyser; 1. Property,
power, and conflict: rethinking the Constantinian revolution Kate Cooper;
2. Playing with fire: conflicting bishops in late Roman Spain and Gaul
David Natal and Jamie Wood; 3. After Rome, before Francia: religion,
ethnicity, and identity politics in Gregory of Tours' Ten Books of
Histories Helmut Reimitz; 4. 'To mistake gold for wealth': the Venerable
Bede and the fate of Northumbria Martin J. Ryan; 5. The incidence of
rebellion in the early medieval West Paul Fouracre; 6. Disputes and
documents in early medieval Italy Marios Costambeys; 7. Divorce and
remarriage between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: canon law and
conflict resolution Riccardo Bof and Conrad Leyser; 8. The memory of
Gregory the Great and the making of Latin Europe, 600-1000 Conrad Leyser;
9. The weight of opinion: religion and the people of Europe from the tenth
to the twelfth century R. I. Moore; 10. 'The peace in the feud' revisited:
feuds in the peace in medieval European feuds Stephen D. White;
Bibliography; Index.