Charlemagne : empire and society

Story, Joanna, 1970- (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0719070880 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780719070884 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0719070899 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780719070891 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2005.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The long shadow of the Merovingians / Paul Fouracre -- Charlemagne the man / Janet L. Nelson -- Einhard's Charlemagne : the characterisation of greatness / David Ganz -- Charlemagne's imperial coronation and the Annals of Lorsch / Roger Collins -- Charlemagne's government / Matthew Innes -- Charlemagne and the aristrocracy : captains and kings / Stuart Airlie -- Charlemagne's church / Mayke de Jong -- Charlemagne's "men of God" : Alcuin, Hildebald, Arn / Donald A. Bullough -- The Carolingian renaissance of culture and learning / Rosamond McKitterick -- Charlemagne and the renewal of Rome / Neil Christie -- Charlemagne and the world beyond the Rhine / Timothy Reuter -- Charlemagne and the Anglo-Saxons / Joanna Story -- Charlemagne's coinage : ideology and economy / Simon Coupland -- Rural settlement hierarchy in the age of Charlemagne / Christopher Loveluck -- Urban developments in the age of Charlemagne / Frans Verhaeghe, with Christopher Loveluck and Joanna Story.