Chapter One. Introduction: The Symbolic Language Of Carolingian Authority
Ildar H. Garipzanov
This introductory chapter of the book highlights historiographic developments on subject in last decades and, more importantly, explains position vis-a-vis approaches to early medieval politics that are most influential English-language historiography. It addresses a basic question about methodological principles form basis for current debate nature medieval, and Carolingian particular, politics. The suggests changes symbolic language authority affected its carriers variously because different these media diversity their audiences. concrete forms which three major sets political assumptions presuppositions were expressed within culture greatly depended particular mode situated use various ?texts.?.Keywords: authority; politics; historiography;
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