East and West in the Early Middle Ages

East and West in the Early Middle Ages

The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective

Esders, Stefan (Freie Universitat Berlin); Hen, Yitzhak (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Fox, Yaniv (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Sarti, Laury

Cambridge University Press

04/2019

374

Dura

Inglês

9781107187153

15 a 20 dias

Bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new perspectives on the Merovingian world's connections with the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Spain.
List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Stefan Esders and Yitzhak Hen; Part I. Expanding Political Horizons: 1. Archaeological perspectives on communication and exchange between the Merovingians and the Eastern Mediterranean Joerg Drauschke; 2. Anxiously looking east: Burgundian foreign policy on the eve of the Reconquest Yaniv Fox; 3. Pax inter utramque gentem: the Merovingians, Byzantium and the history of Frankish identity Helmut Reimitz; Part II. Patterns of Intensification - the 580s: 4. Cultural transmission caught in the act: Gregory of Tours and the relics of St Sergius Phillip Wynn; 5. Hermenegild's rebellion and conversion - Merovingian and Byzantine connections Wolfram Drews; 6. Early Byzantine church silver offered for the eternal rest of Framarich and Karilos: evidence of 'the army of heroic men' raised by Tiberius II Constantine? Benjamin Fourlas; 7. Money for nothing? Franks, Byzantines and Lombards in the sixth and seventh century Andreas Fischer; Part III. The Pope as a Mediterranean Player: 8. The Papacy and the Frankish Bishops in the sixth century Sebastian Scholz; 9. A one-way ticket to Francia: Constantinople, Rome and northern Gaul in the mid-seventh century Charles Meriaux; 10. The digression on Pope Martin I in the Life of Eligius of Noyon. A testimony to late seventh-century knowledge exchange between East and West? Laury Sarti; 11. Perceptions of Rome and the papacy in late Merovingian Francia: the Cononian recension of the Liber pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick; Part IV. Religious and Cultural Exchange: 12. Relocation to the West: the relic of the True Cross in Poitiers Galit Noga-Banai; 13. A generic Mediterranean: hagiography in the early Middle Ages Jamie Kreiner; 14. Defensor of Liguge's Liber scintillarum and the migration of knowledge Yitzhak Hen; 15. Willibald in the holy places Ora Limor; Part V. Rethinking the Late Merovingians: 16. 'Great security prevailed in both East and West': the Merovingian kingdoms and the 6th Ecumenical Council (680/81) Stefan Esders; 17. In the circle of the bishop of Bourges: Bern 611 and late Merovingian culture David Ganz; 18. Contact with the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Merovingian period Ian Wood; 19. 'Merovingian' illuminated manuscripts and their links with the eastern Mediterranean world Laurence Nees; 20. 'Sons of Ishmael, turn back!' Ann Chrystis; 21. Carolingian kingship, apostolic authority and imperial recognition of Pippin the Short's 'Italienpolitik' and the quest for royal legitimacy Erik Goosmann; Index.
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