Making and unmaking the Carolingians : 751-888.
Airlie, Stuart.
Making and unmaking the Carolingians : 751-888. Stuart Airlie - London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. - 1Online-Ressource (457 pages)
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Family Trees -- 1 A ruling family -- Weighing the legacy of the Carolingians -- The illusion of natural authority -- Frankish royalty as inheritance -- Carolingian specialness -- Portraying Carolingian specialness -- Fate of a child, fate of a dynasty -- 2 Building Carolingian royalty 751-68 -- Roots of Carolingian royalty -- The royalty of Pippin III: 751 -- How Pippin III stayed royal -- 3 A house and its head: The reign of Charlemagne 768-814 -- Casting Charlemagne's shadow -- Focusing on Charlemagne's line: 768-92 -- Problems of success and succession: Pippin the Hunchback 792 -- A father under pressure: 792-806 -- Gambling on futures: 806-14 -- 4 Child labour 751-888 -- Born rulers -- Sons royal by name and nature -- All boys together -- 5 Louis the Pious and the paranoid style in politics -- Louis the Pious as new imperial centre -- 817: Godly empire and earthly families -- Years of pressure: 823-30 -- Permanent tension: 831-9 -- Disintegration: 839-43 -- 6 Lines of succession and lines of failure 843-79 -- Dividing an empire and rebuilding kingdoms -- Keeping it in the family: Rule by brothers -- Rule by fathers -- Kingdoms after 843: The middle kingdom -- Kingdoms after 843: The eastern kingdom -- Ending a line: Aquitaine -- Radical options: The western kingdom after 843 -- 7 Universal Carolingians: Masteries of time and space 751-888 -- One-way street: Genealogies towards the future -- Peopling the realm with Carolingians: The wider ranges of kinship -- Praying for a Carolingian future -- 8 Women's work -- The marrying kind: Incomers and women as treasures -- 'The whole crowd of women' -- Royal women at work amongst the aristocracy -- 9 The loss of uniqueness: 888 and all that -- The incredible shrinking dynasty?. Western kingdom, eastern kingdom and the reunited empire of Charles the Fat -- Charles the Fat and towards 888 -- 888 and the breaking of the dynastic spell -- Ending -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781786736468 9781788317443
Karolinger
Monarchie
Frankreich
Monarchy Carolingians
Fernzugriff
Making and unmaking the Carolingians : 751-888. Stuart Airlie - London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. - 1Online-Ressource (457 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Family Trees -- 1 A ruling family -- Weighing the legacy of the Carolingians -- The illusion of natural authority -- Frankish royalty as inheritance -- Carolingian specialness -- Portraying Carolingian specialness -- Fate of a child, fate of a dynasty -- 2 Building Carolingian royalty 751-68 -- Roots of Carolingian royalty -- The royalty of Pippin III: 751 -- How Pippin III stayed royal -- 3 A house and its head: The reign of Charlemagne 768-814 -- Casting Charlemagne's shadow -- Focusing on Charlemagne's line: 768-92 -- Problems of success and succession: Pippin the Hunchback 792 -- A father under pressure: 792-806 -- Gambling on futures: 806-14 -- 4 Child labour 751-888 -- Born rulers -- Sons royal by name and nature -- All boys together -- 5 Louis the Pious and the paranoid style in politics -- Louis the Pious as new imperial centre -- 817: Godly empire and earthly families -- Years of pressure: 823-30 -- Permanent tension: 831-9 -- Disintegration: 839-43 -- 6 Lines of succession and lines of failure 843-79 -- Dividing an empire and rebuilding kingdoms -- Keeping it in the family: Rule by brothers -- Rule by fathers -- Kingdoms after 843: The middle kingdom -- Kingdoms after 843: The eastern kingdom -- Ending a line: Aquitaine -- Radical options: The western kingdom after 843 -- 7 Universal Carolingians: Masteries of time and space 751-888 -- One-way street: Genealogies towards the future -- Peopling the realm with Carolingians: The wider ranges of kinship -- Praying for a Carolingian future -- 8 Women's work -- The marrying kind: Incomers and women as treasures -- 'The whole crowd of women' -- Royal women at work amongst the aristocracy -- 9 The loss of uniqueness: 888 and all that -- The incredible shrinking dynasty?. Western kingdom, eastern kingdom and the reunited empire of Charles the Fat -- Charles the Fat and towards 888 -- 888 and the breaking of the dynastic spell -- Ending -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781786736468 9781788317443
Karolinger
Monarchie
Frankreich
Monarchy Carolingians
Fernzugriff