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Kingship and politics in the late ninth century : = Charles the Fat and the end of the Carolingian Empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kingship and politics in the late ninth century :/ Simon Maclean.
Reminder of title:	Charles the Fat and the end of the Carolingian Empire /
remainder title:	Kingship & Politics in the Late Ninth Century
Author:	Maclean, Simon,
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 262 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	France - Foreign relations - Germany. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496363
ISBN:	9780511496363 (ebook)

Kingship and politics in the late ninth century : = Charles the Fat and the end of the Carolingian Empire /
Maclean, Simon,

Kingship and politics in the late ninth century :Charles the Fat and the end of the Carolingian Empire /Kingship & Politics in the Late Ninth CenturySimon Maclean. - 1 online resource (xix, 262 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;4th ser., 57. - Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;4th ser., 48..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Un-Frankish activities : Charles the Fat in the eyes of contemporary annalists -- The men who would be kings : the 'supermagnates' and the 'rise of the aristocracy' -- Royal politics and regional power in the late Carolingian empire -- The end of the empire I : politics and ideology at the east Frankish court -- The end of the empire II : response and failure -- History, politics and the end of the empire in Notker's Deeds of Charlemagne.

This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876-888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen as a dismal period of decline and fall, scarred by internal feuding, unfettered aristocratic ambition and Viking onslaught. This book offers an alternative interpretation, arguing that previous generations of historians misunderstood the nature and causes of the end of the empire, and neglected many of the relatively numerous sources for this period. Topics covered include the significance of aristocratic power; political structures; the possibilities and limits of kingship; developments in royal ideology; the struggle with the Vikings and the nature of regional political identities. In proposing these explanations for the empire's disintegration, the book has broader implications for our understanding of this formative period of European history more generally.

ISBN: 9780511496363 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Charles,
le Gros, Emperor,839-888.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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France
--Foreign relations--Germany.

LC Class. No.: DC77.8 / M33 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 944/.014/092

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