The Frankish kings and culture in the early Middle Ages

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The Frankish kings and culture in the early Middle Ages

Rosamond McKitterick

(Collected studies series, CS477)

Variorum, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

These 14 studies explore the implications of manuscript studies, examining the relationship between the church and the secular world; cover the phenomena of royal patronage and its manifestations; discuss aspects of literacy and orality of the period; and cover 10th-century culture.

Table of Contents

  • Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Germany - personal connections and local influences
  • town and monastery in the Carolinginan period
  • a Frankish aristocratic family of the 10th century - the descent of the Tracys from Charlemagne
  • the Carolingian kings and the see of Rheims, 882-987
  • Charles the Bald (823-877) and his library - the patronage of learning
  • the palace school of Charles the Bald
  • royal patronage of culture in the Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians - motives and consequences
  • text and image in the Carolingian world
  • Latin and Romance - an historian's perspective
  • the written word and oral communication - Rome's legacy to the Franks
  • women in the Ottonian church - an iconographic perspective
  • continuity and innovation in 10th-century Ottonian culture
  • Ottonian intellectual culture in the 10th century and the role of Theophanu
  • the study of Frankish history in France and Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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