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The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Paperback)
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The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social
responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the
Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the
collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a
set of stories transformed the political playing field in early
medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by
writing political arguments in the form of hagiography, more to
redefine the rules and resources of elite culture than to promote
saints' cults. Jamie Kreiner explores how hagiographers were able
to do this effectively, by layering their arguments with different
rhetorical and cognitive strategies while keeping the surface
narratives entertaining. The result was a subtle and captivating
literature that gives us new ways of thinking about how ideas and
institutions can change, and how the vibrancy of Merovingian
culture inspired subsequent Carolingian developments.
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