Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian KingdomCondition: NewEAN: 9781107658394ISBN: 9781107658394Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/04/2018Description: This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing political arguments in the form of hagiography, more to redefine the rules and resources of elite culture than to promote saints' cults. Jamie Kreiner explores how hagiographers were able to do this effectively, by layering their arguments with different rhetorical and cognitive strategies while keeping the surface narratives entertaining. The result was a subtle and captivating literature that gives us new ways of thinking about how ideas and institutions can change, and how the vibrancy of Merovingian culture inspired subsequent Carolingian developments.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 520gAuthor: Jamie KreinerGenre: HistoryBook Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth SeriesRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
Title: The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
EAN: 9781107658394
ISBN: 9781107658394
Release Date: 10/04/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 341 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, Europe / France, Europe / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, History
Author: Jamie Kreiner
Item Length: 9.1 in
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
