Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521405867)

This volume of specially-commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of renewal to emphasize the enormous creativity and inventiveness of the Franks. Carolingian culture provided the bedrock for the subsequent development of medieval European culture, and this is demonstrated amply by essays that are planned as a series of introductions to the study of each topic.

Author: Rosamond McKitterick
ISBN-10: 0521405866
ISBN-13: 9780521405867
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/11/1993
Pages: 372
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.77h x 7.37w x 0.84d