Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 18)
ISBN-13:
9780521382854
ISBN-10:
0521382858
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Julia M. H. Smith
Publication date:
1992
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
260 pages
Category:
France
,
European History
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ISBN-13:
9780521382854
ISBN-10:
0521382858
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Julia M. H. Smith
Publication date:
1992
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
260 pages
Category:
France
,
European History
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Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 18) (ISBN-13: 9780521382854 and ISBN-10: 0521382858), written by authors
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This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of Carolingian imperial policies, Frankish aristocratic feuding, and local Breton communities. Other issues discussed include economy and society in Brittany and Neustria, the impact of Carolingian imperialism on local Breton communities, changes in the political, ecclesiastical and social structures arising from Carolingian overlordship of Brittany, the interaction of Celtic and Carolingian culture, and the construction of an early medieval ethnic identity. The book shows how regional autonomy and self-regulating villages were as integral to the Carolingian world as court politics, cultural imperialism and frontier strife, and it argues that, in order to understand both the establishment and the collapse of the Carolingian empire, politics at the periphery demand as much attention as politics at the centre.
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