The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (C.751-877)

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16669-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 827 g

Reihe: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages

This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garipzanov, Ildar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface

1. The Symbolic Language of Carolingian Authoruty
2. Vox auctoritatis: The Carolinian Liturgy of Authority
3. Nomen auctoritatis: Communication of Authority in Carolingian Titles
4. Signum auctoritatis: Changing Signs of Carolingian Authority
5. Imago auctoritatis: Visual Dialogue on Carolingian Authority
6. Conclusion: The Transformation of the Symbolic Language of Carolingian Authority

Epilogue
Appendices
Seleced Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ildar H. Garipzanov, Kandidate of Historical Sciences (1991) in Classical History, Kazan State University and Ph.D. (2004) in Medieval History, Fordham University, is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen. He has a number of publications on Carolingian history and Roman imperial tradition in the early Middle Ages including the monograph Carolingian Coinage and Roman Imperial Tradition (2000, in Russian).