Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian world, 772-888
Following its violent conquest by Charlemagne (772–804), Saxony became both a Christian and a Carolingian region. This book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implications for how we view g...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
Fourth series, book 108 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Saxony (Germanic peoples)
/ Christianization
/ History 772-804
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| Further subjects: | B
Church history, 8th century
B Conversion Christianity History B Europe ; Church history ; 600-1500 B Church history ; 8th century B Church History 8th century B Europe Church history 600-1500 B Carolingians History B Church history, 9th century B Europe Church history, 600-1500 B Saxons ; History B Carolingians ; History B Church history ; 9th century B Saxons History B Conversion ; Christianity ; History B Church History 9th century |
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| Summary: | Following its violent conquest by Charlemagne (772–804), Saxony became both a Christian and a Carolingian region. This book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implications for how we view governance, the institutional church, and Christian communities in the early Middle Ages. A burgeoning array of Carolingian regional studies are pulled together to offer a new synthesis of the history of Saxony in the Carolingian Empire and to undercut the narrative of top-down Christianization with a more grassroots model that highlights the potential for diversity within Carolingian Christianity. This book is a comprehensive and accessible account which will provide students with a fresh view of the incorporation of Saxony into the Carolingian world. |
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| ISBN: | 1108164595 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108164597 |