Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World

ISBN-13: 9781107014312 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 284 str.

Mayke de Jong

Opis

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

Recenzje

'… the book … presents a remarkably sympathetic portrait …' Maya Maskarinec, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. History: 2. Interconnected lives; 3. Between the cloister and the court; Part II. Rhetoric: 4. Lament and dialogue; 5. Strategies of persuasion; 6. What's in a name?; Part III. Politics: 7. Radbert and the rebellions; 8. For God, King and country; 9. The world they had lost; Conclusion.