Regino was one of the liveliest medieval chroniclers and his anecdotes provide unique windows onto the doings of Carolingian kings, Hungarian and Viking invaders, and Frankish aristocrats.
Abbot Regino of Prum (d.915) was the last great historian of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned around a million square kilometres of continental western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. His chronicle is the essential account of the empire's collapse, while its b…
Regino was one of the liveliest medieval chroniclers and his anecdotes provide unique windows onto the doings of Carolingian kings, Hungarian and Viking invaders, and Frankish aristocrats.
Regino was one of the liveliest medieval chroniclers and his anecdotes provide unique windows onto the doings of Carolingian kings, Hungarian and Viking invaders, and Frankish aristocrats.
The 'Villages of the Fayyum' is a unique and unparalleled thirteenth-century Arabic tax register of the province of the Fayyum in Middle Egypt. Based on this tax-register, this book utilises quantitative research methods and spatial GIS analysis to provide a rich account of the …
This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials", such as Einhard's <I>Vita Karoli Magni</I>, to focus on productions of the e…
This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials," such as Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, to focus on productions of the eleventh…
"Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities, in order to demonstrate how heretical presence in cities was used in ecclesiastical, political, and social conflicts between the citie…
"Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities, in order to demonstrate how heretical presence in cities was used in ecclesiastical, political, and social conflicts between the citie…