Continuity of the Conquest

Continuity of the Conquest

Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism

Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie

Pennsylvania State University Press

08/2016

208

Dura

Inglês

9780271074016

15 a 20 dias

"An interdisciplinary study examining the origins of Anglo-Norman views of kingship in idealized interpretations of Charlemagne's imperium. Demonstrates how the idea of "Englishness" developed in the Middle Ages as much as a consequence of the Anglo-Norman imagination and experience as a reaction against it"--Provided by publisher.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: Introduction Continuity and Carolingian Kingship: The Case of the Early Normans An "Obsession with the Continent": A Reconsideration of Insular Continuity CHAPTER TWO: Conversion Politics and the Ideology of Imperialism The Politics of Allurement: Conversion and Charlemagne's Civilizing Impulse Conversion Politics: Rituals of Submission and Unification The Pygmalion Effect: Dudo of St. Quentin and the Rituals of Empire Converting the British Barbarian: "Sitting at High Table" at the Anglo-Norman Court CHAPTER THREE: Making Their Mark: The Imperial Ideology of Topography Imperial Unification and Sacral Kingship: Henry of Huntingdon's Via regia Charlemagne's Imperial Memory and the Symbolic Landscape: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Castles CHAPTER FOUR: Taming the Wilderness: A New Look at the New Forest Keeping It in the Familia? Norman Forest Law and its Carolingian Ancestry In the Dreams of Snoring Monks: The King's Body in the New Forest Addicted to the Chase: Expressions of Royal Power in Marie de France's Forests CHAPTER FIVE: Epilogue NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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