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Court culture in the early Middle Ages : the proceedings of the first Alcuin Conference / edited by Catherine Cubitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Alcuin Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Alcuin Conference (1st : 1998 : Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York)
- Alcuin Conference.
- Series:
- Studies in the early Middle Ages ; Volume 3.
- Studies in the Early Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcuin, 735-804--Congresses.
- Alcuin.
- Courts and courtiers--Congresses.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Civilization, Medieval--Congresses.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- France--Court and courtiers--Congresses.
- France.
- England--Court and courtiers--Congresses.
- England.
- Great Britain--History--Alfred, 871-899--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Europe--Court and courtiers--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume sets the study of early medieval political culture upon a new footing by its wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of the place of the court in the kingdom and its role as a centre of intellectual and religious debate.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Was Charlemagne's Court a Courtly Society; A Place of Discipline Carolingian Courts and Aristocratic Youth; Mathematics at Charlemagne's Court and Its Transmission; The Illustrated Manuscript of the Visio Baronti Revelatio Baronti; Carolingian Royal Palaces; Anglo Saxon Courts; Wrestling with Hercules King Alfred and the Classical Past; Persuasion and Invention at the Court of King Alfred the Great; Papal Court Culture during the Pontificate of Zacharias AD 741 52; Beyond the De Ceremoniis
- The Byzantine Court and Byzantine ArtIndex
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 2-503-52639-X
- OCLC:
- 608158103
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