Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23164352
EditoresMayke De Jong, Frans Theuws (0000-0002-7074-3622)
Año2001
Fecha de publicación2001-06-28
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaTopographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789047404040
OpenAlexW416105938
ISBN9789047404040
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas39

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’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what ‘centres of power’ may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Focus (optics) · Geography · Kingdom · Middle Ages · Multitude · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Paleontology