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Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages /

The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed 'places of power', and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the 'high-level...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Theuws, F. (Frans), Jong, Mayke De, Rhijn, Carine van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2001.
Colección:Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cemeteries as places of power / Heinrich Harke
  • Topography and the creation of public space in early medieval Constantinople / Leslie Brubaker
  • Topography, celebration, and power : the making of a papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries / Thomas F.X. Noble
  • Monuments and memory : repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul / Bonnie Effros
  • Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae / Ann Christys
  • Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul / Ian Wood
  • Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages / Frans Theuws
  • Aachen as a place of power / Janet L. Nelson
  • Convents, violence, and competition for power in seventh-century Francia / Regine Le Jan
  • One site, many meanings : Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a place of power in the early Middle Ages / Barbara H. Rosenwein
  • Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and honour in the Frankish kingdoms / Mayke de Jong
  • Monasteries in a peripheral area : seventh-century Gallaecia / Pablo C. Diaz
  • Aedificatio sancti loci : the making of a ninth-century holy place / Julia M.H. Smith
  • People, places and power in Carolingian society / Matthew Innes
  • The regia and the hring : barbarian places of power / Walter Pohl
  • Asgard reconstructed? Gudme, a 'central place' in the North / Lotte Hedeager
  • The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and its continental contacts / Przemyslaw Urbarczyk
  • Topographies of Power : Some conclusions / Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws.