Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms 1537804243, 9781537804248

IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's

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Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms
1537804243, 9781537804248

This book offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of correctio, and shows the self-awareness of its main ins

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How do people, in both the past and the present, think about moments of social and political crisis, and how do they res

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By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had becom

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Carolingian historical texts have long stood at the base of our modern knowledge about the eighth and ninth centuries. T

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As much historiography as reception history, Past Convictions analyzes and explicates the production of historical narra

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This is a unique, comprehensive study of the life and reign of Louis the Pious who, in the early ninth century, inherite

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The Two Kingdoms treats a major achievement of the Carolingian "Renaissance," Frankish ecclesiology, and the i

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In 833 Emperor Louis the Pious, Charlemagne’s son, submitted to a public penance in the wake of a rebellion by his three

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