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Title Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages [electronic resource] / edited by Mayke de Jong and Francis Theuws with Carine van Rhijn.

Imprint Leiden : Brill, 2001.

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Description x, 609 p. : ill., maps.
Series The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; v. 6
Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 6.
Note Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [547]-597) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1 -- Chiris Wickham -- Cemeteries as places of power9 -- Heinrich Harke -- Topography and the creation of public space in early -- mtedieval Constantinople31 -- Leslie Brubaker -- Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a -- papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45 -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monuments and memory: -- repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93 -- Bonnie Effros -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119 -- Ann Christys -- Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137 -- Ian Wood -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155 -- Frans Theuws -- Aachen as a place of power217 -- Janet L. Nelson -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in -- seventh-century Francia243 -- Regine Le Jan -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a -- place of power in the early Middle Ages271 -- Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and -- honour in the Frankish kingdoms291 -- Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329 -- Pablo C. Diaz -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century -- holy place361 -- Julia M.H. Smith -- People, places and power in Carolingian society397 -- Matthew Innes -- The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439 -- Walter Pohl -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in -- the North467 -- Lotte Hedeager -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and -- its continental contacts509 -- Przemyslaw Urbarczyk -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533 -- Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws -- Primary sources547 -- Literature554 -- Index597.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Middle Ages -- Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Theuws, F. (Frans)
De Jong, Mayke.
Rhijn, Carine van.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9004117342 (cl.)

 
    
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