Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages / edited by Mayke de Jong and Francis Theuws with Carine van Rhijn.

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Superior document:The transformation of the Roman world, v. 6
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Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 6.
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Physical Description:x, 609 p. :; ill., maps.
Notes:Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1
  • Chiris Wickham
  • Cemeteries as places of power9
  • Heinrich Harke
  • Topography and the creation of public space in early
  • mtedieval Constantinople31
  • Leslie Brubaker
  • Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a
  • papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45
  • Thomas F.X. Noble
  • Monuments and memory:
  • repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93
  • Bonnie Effros
  • Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119
  • Ann Christys
  • Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137
  • Ian Wood
  • Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155
  • Frans Theuws
  • Aachen as a place of power217
  • Janet L. Nelson
  • Convents, violence, and competition for power in
  • seventh-century Francia243
  • Regine Le Jan
  • One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a
  • place of power in the early Middle Ages271
  • Barbara H. Rosenwein
  • Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and
  • honour in the Frankish kingdoms291
  • Mayke de Jong
  • Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329
  • Pablo C. Diaz
  • Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century
  • holy place361
  • Julia M.H. Smith
  • People, places and power in Carolingian society397
  • Matthew Innes
  • The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439
  • Walter Pohl
  • Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in
  • the North467
  • Lotte Hedeager
  • The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and
  • its continental contacts509
  • Przemyslaw Urbarczyk
  • Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533
  • Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws
  • Primary sources547
  • Literature554
  • Index597.