The Carolingian world /

"At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of Western Europe--from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the em...

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Autor Principal: Costambeys, Marios
Outros autores: Innes, Matthew, MacLean, Simon
Formato: Libro
Idioma:English
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Cambridge medieval textbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • The creation of Carolingian kingship to 800
  • Belief and culture
  • Inventing the Carolingian empire : politics and government, 800-840
  • Villages and villagers, land and landowners
  • Elite society
  • Exchange and trade : the Carolingian economy
  • Sustaining the Carolingian empire : politics and government, 840-888
  • Epilogue.