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041 0 $aeng
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072 7 $aHBLC1$2bicssc
072 7 $aJP$2bicssc
100 1 $aKramer, Rutger$4aut
245 10 $aRethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire
260 $aAmsterdam$bAmsterdam University Press$c2019
300 $a279
520 $aBy the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, Louis the Pious and his court seized the momentum generated by their predecessors and broadened the scope of these reforms ever further. These reformers knew they represented a movement greater than the sum of its parts; the interdependence between those wielding imperial authority and those bearing responsibility for ecclesiastical reforms was driven by comprehensive, yet still surprisingly diverse expectations.Taking this diversity as a starting point, this book takes a fresh look at the optimistic first decades of the ninth century. Extrapolating from a series of detailed case studies rather than presenting a new grand narrative, it offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of personal improvement and institutional correctio, and shows the self-awareness of its main instigators as they pondered what it meant to be a good Christian in a good Christian empire.

546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aMedieval history$2bicssc
650 7 $aPolitics & government$2bicssc
653 $aPolitics
653 $agovernment
653 $ahistory
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