The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed ‘places of power’, and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ‘high-level’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what ‘centres of power’ may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.
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Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries
págs. 45-92
Monuments and memory: repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul
págs. 93-118
Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae
Ann Christys
págs. 119-136
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Janet L. Nelson
págs. 217-242
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One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a place of power in the early Middle Ages
págs. 271-290
Monastic prisoners oor opting out? Political coercion and honour in the Frankish Kingdoms
Mayke de Jong
págs. 291-328
Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia
págs. 329-360
Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century holy place
págs. 361-396
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The regia and the hring: barbarian places of power
págs. 439-466
Asgard Reconstructed? Gudme: a 'central place? in the North
págs. 467-508
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Topographies of power: some conclusions
Mayke De Jong, Frans Theuws
págs. 533-544
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