East and West in the Early Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective
Redaktion: Esders, Stefan

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Produktbeschreibung

From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member communities. By bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume examines the Merovingian world's Mediterranean connections. The Franks' cultural horizons spanned not only the Latin-speaking world, but also the Byzantine Empire, northern Europe, Sassanid Persia, and, after the seventh century, a quickly ascendant Islamic culture. Traces of a constant movement of people and cultural artefacts through this world are ubiquitous. As simultaneous consumers, adapters, and disseminators of culture, the degree to which the Merovingian kingdoms were thought to engage with their neighbours is re-evaluated as this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new perspectives on Merovingian wide-ranging relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316953327
• Artikelnr.: 57076275

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of
abbreviations; Introduction Stefan Esders and Yitzhak Hen; Part I.
Expanding Political Horizons: 1. Archaeological perspectives on
communication and exchange between the Merovingians and the Eastern
Mediterranean Jörg Drauschke; 2. Anxiously looking east: Burgundian foreign
policy on the eve of the Reconquest Yaniv Fox; 3. Pax inter utramque
gentem: the Merovingians, Byzantium and the history of Frankish identity
Helmut Reimitz; Part II. Patterns of Intensification - the 580s: 4.
Cultural transmission caught in the act: Gregory of Tours and the relics of
St Sergius Phillip Wynn; 5. Hermenegild's rebellion and conversion -
Merovingian and Byzantine connections Wolfram Drews; 6. Early Byzantine
church silver offered for the eternal rest of Framarich and Karilos:
evidence of 'the army of heroic men' raised by Tiberius II Constantine?
Benjamin Fourlas; 7. Money for nothing? Franks, Byzantines and Lombards in
the sixth and seventh century Andreas Fischer; Part III. The Pope as a
Mediterranean Player: 8. The Papacy and the Frankish Bishops in the sixth
century Sebastian Scholz; 9. A one-way ticket to Francia: Constantinople,
Rome and northern Gaul in the mid-seventh century Charles Mériaux; 10. The
digression on Pope Martin I in the Life of Eligius of Noyon. A testimony to
late seventh-century knowledge exchange between East and West? Laury Sarti;
11. Perceptions of Rome and the papacy in late Merovingian Francia: the
Cononian recension of the Liber pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick; Part IV.
Religious and Cultural Exchange: 12. Relocation to the West: the relic of
the True Cross in Poitiers Galit Noga-Banai; 13. A generic Mediterranean:
hagiography in the early Middle Ages Jamie Kreiner; 14. Defensor of
Ligugé's Liber scintillarum and the migration of knowledge Yitzhak Hen; 15.
Willibald in the holy places Ora Limor; Part V. Rethinking the Late
Merovingians: 16. 'Great security prevailed in both East and West': the
Merovingian kingdoms and the 6th Ecumenical Council (680/81) Stefan Esders;
17. In the circle of the bishop of Bourges: Bern 611 and late Merovingian
culture David Ganz; 18. Contact with the Eastern Mediterranean in the late
Merovingian period Ian Wood; 19. 'Merovingian' illuminated manuscripts and
their links with the eastern Mediterranean world Laurence Nees; 20. 'Sons
of Ishmael, turn back!' Ann Chrystis; 21. Carolingian kingship, apostolic
authority and imperial recognition of Pippin the Short's 'Italienpolitik'
and the quest for royal legitimacy Erik Goosmann; Index.