Palaces, Itineraries and Political Order in the Post-Carolingian Kingdoms
Simon MacLean
This chapter discusses representation of palace as a tool for calibrating political change within Frankish world, by comparing ninth century with tenth. The decades after death last legitimate Carolingian emperor Charles III the Fat in 888 represented moment dramatic structural world imperial landscape disintegrated and re-formed into post-Carolingian tenth; shift from large hegemonic empire ruled members single dynasty to jigsaw smaller kingdoms controlled new, unrelated mutually antagonistic royal families. Yet transition remains underanalysed, tends be absorbed grander models historical development, particular those associated debates concerning medieval Staatlichkeit (state-ness) revolution year 1000. Keywords: families; III; feudal revolution; world; empire;
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