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History and Memory in the Carolingian World
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00A remarkable quantity and variety of history was written in Frankish realms of Western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries. This work examines the understanding of the past and use of history contained in these books and their role in forming political ideologies and senses of identity within Europe. more...
Charlemagne
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00A major new re-examination of Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. more...
The Carolingians and the Written Word
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 35.00This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in the eighth- and ninth-centuries. more...
The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 35.00This book investigates the importance of literacy in early medieval Europe in a number of different societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. more...
Edward Gibbon and Empire
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 46.00A new assessment of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in the light of modern research. more...
Kings, Barons and Justices
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 80.00This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major legislative change. more...
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establishment of the first 'barbarian kingdoms' in the West, to the eve of Justinian's wars of reconquest. It makes a significant contribution to the developing field of ancient and medieval communication. more...
The Early Humiliati
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 59.00This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184 but - in a remarkable transition - were reconciled seventeen years later and established a highly successful religious order in north Italy. more...
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00This is the first book in any language to deal with the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire in 888, as seen through the reign of its last ruler Charles the Fat. It argues against traditionally pessimistic views of this important period, offering new interpretations of early medieval kingship. more...
The English in Rome, 1362-1420
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 46.00This study centres on the early archives of the Venerabile Collegio Inglese in Rome. It examines the English community in Rome, in its political, commercial and religious setting, between 1362, when the first English hospice for poor people and pilgrims was founded, and 1420. more...









