Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
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Word Count
85,500 words, Guess
Page Count
342 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101107050650
- ISBN-139781107050655
- Library of Congress Control Number2013045305
- OCLC Control Number866619787
- Better World Books9781107050655
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28522935M
Classifications
- LCCDC65 .K66 2014
Description
"This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing political arguments in the form of hagiography, more to redefine the rules and resources of elite culture than to promote saints' cults. Jamie Kreiner explores how hagiographers were able to do this effectively, by layering their arguments with different rhetorical and cognitive strategies while keeping the surface narratives entertaining. The result was a subtle and captivating literature that gives us new ways of thinking about how ideas and institutions can change, and how the vibrancy of Merovingian culture inspired subsequent Carolingian developments."--
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