Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mayke de Jong and Francis Theuws with Carine van Rhijn

• Pubblicazione: Leiden, : Brill, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (629 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.1
• Soggetto topico: Middle Ages; Power (Social sciences)
• Altri autori: TheuwsF (Frans) De JongMayke RhijnCarine van
• Note generali: Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [547]-597) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1 -- Chiris Wickham -- Cemeteries as places of power9 -- Heinrich Harke -- Topography and the creation of public space in early -- mtedieval Constantinople31 -- Leslie Brubaker -- Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a -- papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45 -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monuments and memory: -- repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93 -- Bonnie Effros -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119 -- Ann Christys -- Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137 -- Ian Wood -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155 -- Frans Theuws -- Aachen as a place of power217 -- Janet L. Nelson -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in -- seventh-century Francia243 -- Regine Le Jan -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a -- place of power in the early Middle Ages271 -- Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and -- honour in the Frankish kingdoms291 -- Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329 -- Pablo C. Diaz -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century -- holy place361 -- Julia M.H. Smith -- People, places and power in Carolingian society397 -- Matthew Innes -- The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439 -- Walter Pohl -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in -- the North467 -- Lotte Hedeager -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and -- its continental contacts509 -- Przemyslaw Urbarczyk -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533 -- Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws -- Primary sources547 -- Literature554 -- Index597.
• Titolo autorizzato: Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages
• ISBN: 1-280-91458-0; 9786610914586; 90-474-0404-1; 1-4294-0703-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821423303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transformation of the Roman world ; ; v. 6.