The long morning of medieval Europe : new directions in early medieval studies / edited by Jennifer R. Davis and Michael McCormick.

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Book
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English
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2008.
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xvi, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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    "Invited to think about what seemed to each the most exciting new ways of investigating the early development of western European civilization, this impressive group of international scholars produced a wide-ranging discussion of innovative types of research that define tomorrow's field today. The contributors, many of whom rarely publish in English, test approaches extending from using ancient DNA to deducing cultural patterns signified by thousands of medieval manuscripts of saints' lives. They examine the archaeology of slave labor, economic systems, disease history, transformations of piety, the experience of power and property, exquisite literary sophistication, and the construction of the meaning of palace spaces or images of the divinity. The book illustrates in an approachable style the vitality of research into the early Middle Ages, and the signal contributions of that era to the future development of western civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
    Notes
    "This book emerged from 'New directions 2: The early Middle Ages today, a conference held at Harvard University in October 2004"--Foreword.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Rethinking the structure of the early medieval economy / Chris Wickham
    • Strong rulers weak economy? Rome, the Carolingians, and the archaeology of slavery in the first millennium AD / Joachim Henning
    • The beginnings of hilltop Villages in early Medieval Tuscany / Riccardo Francovich
    • Molecular Middle Ages: early Medieval economic history in the twenty-first century / Michael McCormick
    • The early Medieval economy: data, production, exchange, and demand / Angeliki E. Laiou
    • Latin hagiography before the ninth century: a synoptic view / Guy Philippart with Michel Trigalet
    • Donationes pro anima: gift and countergift in the early Medieval liturgy / Arnold Angenendt
    • The early Medieval transformation of piety / Thomas Head
    • Observations on early Medieval weather in general, bloody rain in particular / Paul Edward Dutton
    • The king says no: on the logic of type-scenes in late antique and early Medieval narrative / Joachín Martínez Pizarro
    • Of arms and the (Ger)man: literary and material culture in the Waltharius / Jan M. Ziolkowski
    • Representations and reality in early medieval literature / Danuta Shanzer
    • Charlemagne and empire / Janet L. Nelson
    • A pattern for power: Charlemagne's delegation of judicial responsibilities / Jennifer R. Davis
    • Practices of property in the Carolingian empire / Matthew J. Innes
    • The cunning of institutions / Stuart Airlie
    • Charlemagne's balcony: the solarium in ninth-century narratives / Mayke de Jong
    • Image and object: Christ's dual nature and the crisis of early Medieval art / Herbert L. Kessler
    • Matter and meaning in the Carolingian world / Thomas F.X. Noble.
    ISBN
    • 9780754662549 ((alk. paper))
    • 0754662543 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2007022605
    OCLC
    141852734
    International Article Number
    • 9780754662549
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