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Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe
Janet L. Nelson
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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Acknowledgments (page vi)
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Preface (page vii)
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Abbreviations (page x)
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1 Queens as Jezebels: Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History (page 1)
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2 On the Limits of the Carolingian Renaissance (page 49)
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3 Royal Saints and Early Medieval Kingship (page 69)
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4 Charles the Bald and the Church in Town and Countryside (page 75)
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5 Legislation and Consensus in the Reign of Charles the Bald (page 91)
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6 The Church's Military Service in the Ninth Century: a Contemporary Comparative View? (page 117)
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7 Kingship, Law and Liturgy in the Political Thought of Hincmar of Rheims (page 133)
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8 The Annals of St. Bertin (page 173)
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9 Public Histories and Private History in the Work of Nithard (page 195)
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10 National Synods, Kingship as Office, and Royal Anointing: An Early Medieval Syndrome (page 239)
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11 Symbols in Context: Rulers' Inauguration Rituals in Byzantium and the West in the Early Middle Ages (page 259)
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12 Inauguration Rituals (page 283)
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13 The Problem of King Alfred's Royal Anointing (page 309)
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14 Ritual and Reality in the Early Medieval Ordines (page 329)
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15 The Earliest Surviving Royal Ordo: Some Liturgical and Historical Aspects (page 341)
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16 The Second English Ordo (page 361)
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17 The Rites of the Conqueror (page 375)
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Index (page 403)
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Bloomsbury
- 9780907628590 (hardcover)