The symbolic language of authority in the Carolingian world (c. 751-877) / / by Ildar H. Garipzanov.

• Author: Garipzanov, Ildar H.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / I.H. Garipzanov -- Chapter One. Introduction: The Symbolic Language Of Carolingian Authority / I.H. Garipzanov -- Chapter Two. Vox Auctoritatis: The Carolingian Liturgy Of Authority / I.H. Garipzanov -- Chapter Three. Nomen Auctoritatis: Communication Of Authority In Carolingian Titles / I.H. Garipzanov -- Chapter Four. Signum Auctoritatis: Changing Signs Of Carolingian Authority / I.H. Garipzanov -- Chapter Five. Imago Auctoritatis: Visual Dialogue On Carolingian Authority / I.H. Garipzanov -- Chapter Six. Conclusion: The Transformation Of The Symbolic Language Of Carolingian Authority / I.H. Garipzanov -- Epilogue / I.H. Garipzanov -- Appendices / I.H. Garipzanov -- Selected Bibliography / I.H. Garipzanov -- Index / I.H. Garipzanov.