Carolingian renewal : sources and heritage

Author(s)

• Bullough, Donald A.

Bibliographic Information

Carolingian renewal : sources and heritage

D.A. Bullough

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The collected works of a Carolingian scholar are presented in this volume, which traces the origins of this Frankish dynasty, examines the Carolingian court and studies its influence on a period of reform in 10th-century England.

Table of Contents

• Roman books and Carolingian "renovatio"
• "imagines regum" and their significance in the early medieval West
• ethnic history and the Carolingians - an alternative reading of Paul the Deacon's "Historia Langobardorum"
• "aula renovata" - the Carolingian court before the Aachen Palace
• Alcuin and the kingdom of heaven - liturgy, theology and the Carolingian age
• texts, chant and the Chapel of Louis the Pious
• the continental background of 10th-century English reform
• the educational tradition in England from Alfred to Aelfric.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA14131350
• ISBN:
  • 0719033543
• LCCN: 90020283
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Manchester [England] ; New York,New York, NY, USA
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 343 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DC70
  • DC20 : 944/.014
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Carolingians
  • LCSH : France -- Civilization -- 700-1000
  • LCSH : England -- Civilization -- To 1066