The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877) (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages)

Garipzanov, Ildar H.

Brill（2008/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004166691
• DDC分類 944.014

Full Description

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.

Contents

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