Unjust seizure : conflict, interest, and authority in an early medieval society / / Warren Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782903803321
• Autore: Brown Warren <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 0-8014-7469-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : maps
• Collana: Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past
• Disciplina: 940.1
• Soggetti: Carolingians; Property - Europe - History; Power (Social sciences) - Europe - History; Privileges and immunities - Europe - History; Civilization, Medieval; Bavaria (Germany) History To 1180; Europe Social conditions To 1492; Germany Religious life and customs Middle Ages, 843-1517; Germany History Saxon House, 919-1024
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Conflict in Agilolfing Bavaria -- Interlude: The Transition to Carolingian Bavaria -- Chapter Two. Disputing Under the Carolingians, 79I-8II -- Chapter Three. The Nature of Authority in Carolingian Bavaria -- Chapter Four. A Subculture of Compromise -- Chapter Five. Disputing Under166 The Carolingians, 812-835 -- Chapter Six. Disputing Under The Carolingians, 836-854 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Most scholarship in English on the political and social order of early medieval Europe concentrates on the Western Frankish regions. Warren Brown shifts the focus to the East, concentrating on conflicts and their resolutions to learn how a central authority could affect local societies in the Middle Ages. Brown delves into the rich archival materials of eighth- and ninth-century Bavaria, exploring how Bavarians handled ; conflicts both before and after the absorption of their duchy into the empire of Charlemagne. The ability to follow specific cases in remarkable detail allows Brown to depict the ways the conquered population reacted to the imposition of a new central authority; how that authority and its institutions were able to function in this far-flung outpost of Charlemagne's realm; and how the relationship between royal authority and local processes developed as the Frankish empire unraveled under Charlemagne's heirs. By drawing on the recent work of anthropologists and political scientists on topics such as dispute resolution and the dynamics of conquest and colonization, Brown considers issues larger than the procedures for handling conflict in the early Middle Ages: How could a ruler exercise power without the coercive resources available to the modern state? In what ways can a people respond to military conquest?