03343nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10175335 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 011211s2001 ne ab sb 101 0 engod 2001277904 9004117342 (cl.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)228168321 D121 .T67 2001eb D lcco BR lcco 940.1 21 Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages [electronic resource] / edited by Mayke de Jong and Francis Theuws with Carine van Rhijn. Leiden : Brill, 2001. x, 609 p. : ill., maps. The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; v. 6 Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy. Includes bibliographical references (p. [547]-597) and index. Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1 -- Chiris Wickham -- Cemeteries as places of power9 -- Heinrich Harke -- Topography and the creation of public space in early -- mtedieval Constantinople31 -- Leslie Brubaker -- Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a -- papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45 -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monuments and memory: -- repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93 -- Bonnie Effros -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119 -- Ann Christys -- Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137 -- Ian Wood -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155 -- Frans Theuws -- Aachen as a place of power217 -- Janet L. Nelson -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in -- seventh-century Francia243 -- Regine Le Jan -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a -- place of power in the early Middle Ages271 -- Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and -- honour in the Frankish kingdoms291 -- Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329 -- Pablo C. Diaz -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century -- holy place361 -- Julia M.H. Smith -- People, places and power in Carolingian society397 -- Matthew Innes -- The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439 -- Walter Pohl -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in -- the North467 -- Lotte Hedeager -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and -- its continental contacts509 -- Przemyslaw Urbarczyk -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533 -- Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws -- Primary sources547 -- Literature554 -- Index597. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Middle Ages Congresses. Power (Social sciences) Congresses. Electronic books. local Theuws, F. (Frans) De Jong, Mayke. Rhijn, Carine van. ebrary, Inc. Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 6. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10175335 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 141109 141109