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Loading... Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovationby Rosamond McKitterick (Editor)
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This volume of specially commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is made the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of renewal to emphasise the enormous creativity and inventiveness of the Franks in every aspect of their intellectual and cultural life. Carolingian culture provided the bedrock for the subsequent development of medieval European culture, and this is demonstrated amply by essays which are planned as introductions to the study of each subject and which also incorporate the author's specialist new research, on the 'Carolingian Renaissance', political theory, the teaching of grammar, Latin and German literature, thought, the writing of history, script and book production, art, and music. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)944.014History and Geography Europe France and region France Early history -987 751-987LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |