TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Jong,Mayke
AU  - Theuws,Frans
TI  - Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages
T2  - Transformation of the Roman World Series
SN  - 9781280914584
AV  - D121 -- .T67 2001eb 
U1  - 940.1 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Middle Ages -- Congresses
KW  - Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Topographies of power: introduction -- Cemeteries as places of power -- Topography and the creation of public space in early medieval Constantinople -- Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries -- Monuments and memory: repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae -- Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages -- Aachen as a place of power -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in seventh-century Francia -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a place of power in the early Middle Ages -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and honour in the Frankish kingdoms -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century holy place -- People, places and power in Carolingian society -- The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in the North -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and its continental contacts -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Literature -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photo section
N2  - The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed 'places of power', and how such places, in turn, created powerful people
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