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Making and Unmaking the Carolingians - 751-888 (Hardcover)
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Making and Unmaking the Carolingians - 751-888 (Hardcover)
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How does power manifest itself in individuals? Why do people obey
authority? And how does a family, if they are the source of such
dominance, convey their superiority and maintain their command in a
pre-modern world lacking speedy communications, standing armies and
formalised political jurisdiction? Here, Stuart Airlie expertly
uses this idea of authority as a lens through which to explore one
of the most famous dynasties in medieval Europe: the Carolingians.
Ruling the Frankish realm from 751 to 888, the family of
Charlemagne had to be ruthless in asserting their status and adept
at creating a discourse of Carolingian legitimacy in order to
sustain their supremacy. Through its nuanced analysis of authority,
politics and family, Making and Unmaking the Carolingians, 751-888
outlines the system which placed the Carolingian dynasty at the
centre of the Frankish world. In doing so, Airlie sheds important
new light on both the rise and fall of the Carolingian empire and
the nature of power in medieval Europe more generally.
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