Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages
By: edited by Mayke de Jong and Francis Theuws with Carine van Rhijn.
Contributors: Theuws, F.; De Jong, Mayke.; Rhijn, Carine van.
Series: The transformation of the Roman world,; v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
Subjects: Middle Ages -- History -- Congresses; Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [547]-597) and index.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1; title: Chiris Wickham; title: Cemeteries as places of power9; title: Heinrich Harke; title: Topography and the creation of public space in early; title: mtedieval Constantinople31; title: Leslie Brubaker; title: Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a; title: papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45; title: Thomas F.X. Noble; title: Monuments and memory:; title: repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93; title: Bonnie Effros; title: Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119; title: Ann Christys; title: Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137; title: Ian Wood; title: Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155; title: Frans Theuws; title: Aachen as a place of power217; title: Janet L. Nelson; title: Convents, violence, and competition for power in; title: seventh-century Francia243; title: Regine Le Jan; title: One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a; title: place of power in the early Middle Ages271; title: Barbara H. Rosenwein; title: Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and; title: honour in the Frankish kingdoms291; title: Mayke de Jong; title: Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329; title: Pablo C. Diaz; title: Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century; title: holy place361; title: Julia M.H. Smith; title: People, places and power in Carolingian society397; title: Matthew Innes; title: The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439; title: Walter Pohl; title: Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in; title: the North467; title: Lotte Hedeager; title: The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and; title: its continental contacts509; title: Przemyslaw Urbarczyk; title: Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533; title: Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws; title: Primary sources547; title: Literature554; title: Index597.