The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987 /

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Author / Creator:McKitterick, Rosamond
Imprint:London ; New York : Longman, 1983.
Description:xiv, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/507889
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ISBN:0582490057 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 340-348.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of genealogical tables
  • List of maps
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. The sources
  • 2. From major domus to rex francorum: the emergence of the Carolingians
  • 3. Conquest and consolidation: Pippin III and Charlemagne
  • 4. The means of ruling
  • 5. Louis the Pious and the Christian Empire
  • 6. The foundations of the Carolingian renaissance
  • 7. Charles the Bald and the defence of Carolingian kingship
  • 8. Scholarship, book production and libraries: the flowering of the Carolingian renaissance
  • 9. Normandy, Brittany and Flanders
  • 10. Odo and the emergence of the Robertians
  • 11. Learning and monasticism in the tenth century
  • 12. The last Carolingians
  • Bibliography of principal sources
  • A note on further reading
  • Genealogical tables
  • Maps
  • Index of manuscripts
  • General index