Using and not using the past after the Carolingian Empire, c. 900-c.1050 / edited by Sarah Greer, Alice Hicklin, and Stefan Esders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greer, Sarah (Researcher), editor.

Hicklin, Alice, editor.

Esders, Stefan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Historiography.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Europe--History--476-1492--Historiography.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 308 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the 'post-Carolingian' period in its own right and presenting it as a time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and legitimacy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1 / Sarah Greer and Alice Hicklin

Part I Past Narratives p. 13

2 The future of history after empire p. 15 / Geoffrey Koziol

3 Remembering troubled pasts: episcopal deposition and succession in Flodoard's History of the Church of Rheims p. 36 / Edward Roberts

4 In the shadow of Rome: after empire in the late-tenth-century chronicle of Benedict of Monte Soratte p. 56 / Maya Maskarinec

5 Infiltrating the local past: supra-regional players in local hagiography from Trier in the ninth and tenth centuries p. 77 / Lenneke van Raaij

6 After the fall: lives of texts and lives of modern scholars in the historiography of the post-Carolingian world p. 94 / Stuart Airlie

Part II Inscribing Memories p. 109

7 How Carolingian was early medieval Catalonia? p. 111 / Matthias M. Tischler

8 Orchestrating harmony: litanies, queens, and discord in the Carolingian and Ottoman, empires p. 134 / Megan Welton

9 Models of marriage charters in a notebook of Ademar of Chabannes (ninth- to eleventh-century) p. 154 / Philippe Depreux

10 All in the family: creating a Carolingian genealogy in the eleventh century p. 166 / Sarah Greer

11 'Charles's stirrups hang down from Conrad's saddle': reminiscences of Carolingian oath practice under Conrad II (1024-1039) p. 189 / Stefan Esders

Part III Recalling Communities p. 201

12 Notions of belonging. Some observations on solidarity in the late- and post-Carolingian world p. 203 / Maximilian Diesenberger

13 Bishops, canon law, and the politics of belonging in post-Carolingian Italy, c. 930-c. 960 p. 221 / Jelle Wassenaar

14 Migrant masters and their books. Italian scholars and knowledge transfer in post-Carolingian Europe p. 241 / Giorgia Vocino

15 The dignity of our bodies and the salvation of our souls. Scandal, purity, and the pursuit of unity in late tenth-century monasticism p. 262 / Steven Vanderputten

16 Law and liturgy: excommunication records, 900-1050 p. 282 / Sarah Hamilton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Using and not using the past after the Carolingian Empire

ISBN:

9780367002510

0367002515

9780367002527

0367002523

OCLC:

1105721855