Jamie Kreiner

The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how a set of great stories changed the political playing field in an early medieval society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781107658394
• ISBN-10: 110765839X
• Artikelnr.: 53211897

Autorenporträt

Jamie Kreiner is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia where she researches and teaches the history of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Hagiographical argument and legal culture
2. The style and science of persuasion
3. Double-scope narrative and the economy of government
4. Property and community beyond the cult
5. The Carolingian synthesis
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.