The Bosonids or Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constance B Bouchard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-407 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286367 |
| OpenAlex | W2333888867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Carolingian age, that is the ninth and tenth centuries, was a period in which several powerful lineages rose rapidly to power and to a royal or even imperial title-and often lost that power again nearly as rapidly. Besides the Carolingians themselves, these lineages included the early Capetians, the Rudolphian kings of Burgundy, the Berengarian kings of Italy, the Ottonians in Germany, and in Provence, the Bosonids. The Bosonids are not nearly as well known to modern scholars as the other family groups mentioned above. Indeed, I know of no work on them in English.' And yet, in spite of their rather amusingsounding name, the Bosonids were in the short run the most successful in their rise to power of any lineage of their time, producing the first non-Carolingian king on the western continent in over a century when
Ancient history · Physics · Political science · Power (physics · Thermodynamics · Byzantine Studies and History · History
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2024 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |