Carolingian World

Informationen zum Autor Marios Costambeys is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. His previous publications include Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700–900 (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Matthew Innes is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. His previous publications include State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400–1000 (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Simon MacLean is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. His previous publications include Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Klappentext A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire! which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries. Zusammenfassung At its height! the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe as the largest political unit for centuries. This comprehensive survey traces the empire's history from its origins around 700! through its expansion in the eighth century! to the struggle to hold it together in the ninth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The creation of Carolingian kingship to 800; 3. Belief and culture; 4. Inventing the Carolingian empire: politics and government, 800-840; 5. Villages and villagers, land and landowners; 6. Elite society; 7. Exchange and trade: the Carolingian economy; 8. Sustaining the Carolingian empire: politics and government, 840-888; 9. Epilogue.

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• Authors: Marios Costambeys, Marios (University of Liverpool) Costambeys, Marios (University of Liverpool) Innes Costambeys, Costambeys Marios, Matthew Innes, Matthew (Birkbeck College Innes, Matthew Costambeys Innes, Innes Matthew, Simon Maclean, Simon (University of St Andrews Maclean, MacLean Simon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2011
• EAN: 9780521563666
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56366-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (; Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages