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The remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy within Western Europe. Rosamond McKitterick offers pioneering insights into the evolution of this extraordinary source, and its significance.

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This volume explores the legal issues and legal consequences underlying relations between secular and religious authorities in the context of the Christian Church, deepening our understanding of interactions between the churches and the legal systems in which they existed in the past and continue to exist now.

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Karl der Große ist eine der herausragenden Gestalten der Geschichte. Schon den Zeitgenossen galt er als Lichtgestalt und Ausnahmepersönlichkeit. Seine Krönung zum Kaiser im Jahre 800 bezeichnet den eigentlichen Beginn des Mittelalters. Er war König der Franken und Langobarden und ordnete die Verhältnisse in Westeuropa neu. Rosamond McKitterick, eine der besten Kennerinnen der Epoche, schafft es, den >Vater Europas< und seine Regierung aus eine...

Provides the first full study of the predecessor church of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction.

In these essays, McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past.

Rosamond McKitterick examines the entire history of the Carolinian dynasty in its full political and cultural context. Her account tells of a remarkable succession of rulers during whose ascendancy the foundations of the governmental, administrative and ecclesiastical institutions of Europe were established, along with the intellectual and cultural traditions which were to dominate western Christendom for centuries to come.

An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of immense political, religious. cultural and intellectual dynamism, not only did it lay the foundations of the governmental and administrative institutions of Europe and the organisation of the Church, but it also securely established the intellectual and cultural traditions which were to dominate western C...

This study reveals the remarkable quantity of varied forms and new types of history written in the Frankish realms of Western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. The Franks also preserved the classical and Judaeo-Christian histories from earlier centuries. Their books reflect a highly sophisticated and many-layered understanding of the past as well as a very creative use of history. Rosamond McKitterick illuminates the extraordinaril...

This study reveals the remarkable quantity of varied forms and new types of history written in the Frankish realms of Western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. The Franks also preserved the classical and Judaeo-Christian histories from earlier centuries. Their books reflect a highly sophisticated and many-layered understanding of the past as well as a very creative use of history. Rosamond McKitterick illuminates the extraordinaril...

Provides the first full study of the original church on the site of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction. Explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with Rome itself.

A new assessment of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in the light of modern research.

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A comprehensive account of European medieval history from c. 700 c. 900.

This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. The studies, by leading scholars in the field, set out to provide the factual basis from which assessments of the significance of literacy in the early mediaeval world can be made, as well as analysing t...

With hundreds of lavish photos, this atlas covers 1, 000 examples of diversity and development, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the New World. 90+ full-color maps.

A comprehensive account of European medieval history from c.700-c.900.

Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past. In these essays, McKitterick focuses on the Frankish realms in the eighth and ninth centuries and examines different methods and genres of historical writing in relation to the percepti...

This book is a major re-examination of Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation.