Charlemagne's practice of empire
Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main problems of ruling an empi...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction; Part I. Strategic Rulership
- Part I introduction: Tools of control and coercion
- Managing royal agents
- Disciplining royal agents
- Fractured control : Charlemagne's response to dissent
- Part I conclusion: Control and its limits
- Part II. Center and Region in Charlemagne's Empire
- Part II introduction: Unity and diversity in Charlemagne's empire
- An empire of regions?
- The conquered regions as arenas for experimentation
- The nature of the empire : centralization and communication
- Part II conclusion: The imperial character of Charlemagne's realm
- Part III. An Empire of Practice
- Part III introduction: Continuity, change, and the building of an empire
- The chronology of the reign
- Recta via : the dynamics of political change
- Part III conclusion: An empire of practice
- Conclusion: Charlemagne's invention of medieval rulership