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Peaceful Kings - Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination (Hardcover)
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Peaceful Kings - Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination (Hardcover)
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In Rome on Christmas Day 800 Charlemagne, the Frankish king, was
acclaimed "most August, crowned by God, great and peacemaking
emperor." This event transformed the nature of his rule, marked the
re-emergence of the ideas of empire in the early medieval West, and
changed the history of western monarchy. But why was Charlemagne
acclaimed as peacemaking emperor? How had peace come to be seen as
a central component of western European rulership?
Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary sources this study explores
the image of peaceful rulership in western Europe from the earliest
phase of post-Roman polities -- Vandal Africa, Gibichung Burgundy,
Ostrogothic Italy - to the Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon worlds. From
poems celebrating Vandal baths that evoked stoic concepts of cosmic
order to seventh-century Visigothic poetry and early Irish
theorising on the ideal ruler, this book offers a comprehensive
vision of how the relationship between ideas of kingship and peace
was explored through poetry, political thought, ritual and the
writing of history across Europe in the early Middle Ages. Peace
emerges in these centuries as a concern for kings and emperors,
their celebrants, critics, and advisors. It was no less an issue
for those whom they ruled. From prayers for safe travel and
blessings for new houses through to medieval pilgrim accounts
praising the surprising security of ninth-century Egypt's roads,
this study asks what peace meant to early medieval people, and how
collective expectations and royal intentions met.
This is the first full scholarly exploration of the relationship
between the idea of peace and rulership through Europe's formative
centuries, setting the shifting terms of that relationship in their
full historical, political and cultural context. In the process it
offers new insights to the reception of late antique thought and
imagery in the earlier Middle Ages, the range and distinctiveness
of early medieval political thought, and the intellectual vitality
of the period AD 500 to 900.
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