Following its violent conquest by Charlemagne (772-804), Saxony became both a Christian and a Carolingian region. This book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implicati…
Politics of conquest -- The Saxon wars -- The Stellinga -- Conversion and Christianization -- Founders and patrons -- Religion and society
Following its violent conquest by Charlemagne (772-804), Saxony became both a Christian and a Carolingian region. This book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implicati…
"Following its violent conquest by Charlemagne (772-804), Saxony became both a Christian and a Carolingian region. This book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implicat…
A political narrative of Carolingian history structured by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources. It deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation …