Politics and History in the Tenth Century
Politics and History in the Tenth Century
£51.00
GBPThis book stands at the intersection of recent work in historiography and the study of political culture in the early Middle Ages. It takes the autograph manuscript of a tenth-century monk, Richer, as a point of entry into the author's world, and asks how he and his contemporaries in the religious and intellectual community of Reims engaged in Frankish politics. By shifting focus from the events and actors that typically occupy centre stage in political theatre to the writing of history and its authors, it offers a sustained reflection on the relationship between politics and history. As a case study it aims, ultimately, to articulate possibilities for the study of early medieval politics and, at the same time, to provide a model for a type of historical inquiry in which the development of questions and the exploration of possibilities stand more prominent than the conclusions drawn from them.
- Stands at the intersection of work in medieval historiography and the study of political culture
- Presents a reading of one of the most important narrative sources from the tenth century, through a rare reading of a tenth-century author
- Brings together paleographical and codicological study within a broader historical context
Product details
July 2007Paperback
9780521038126
356 pages
227 × 151 × 20 mm
0.533kg
10 b/w illus. 2 maps
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the notes and other conventions
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Religious and Intellectual Landscapes:
- 1. Richer of Reims
- 2. Cantor and canon at the cathedral of Reims
- 3. Intellectual culture
- 4. Monk at Saint-Remigius
- Conclusions
- Part II. Political History:
- 5. A Frankish civil war, 987–991
- 6. Archbishop Gerbert of Reims, 981–988
- 7. Richer and his narrative
- 8. A tenth-century treasure
- Conclusions
- Part III. Historian and Community, Past and Present:
- 9. Flodoard of Reims
- 10. Carolingians and Robertians, 888–929
- 11. The contested see of Reims, 925–948
- 12. Kingship and community
- Conclusions
- Epilogue: a curious journey
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
