Eric J. Goldberg, <i>In the Manner of the Franks: Hunting, Kingship, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe</i>. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 338 pp.
Scott G. Bruce
In this book, Eric Goldberg examines the hunting of animals in Carolingian period as an expression early medieval masculinity, a feature premodern political culture, and window onto one many ways that Frankish people interacted with natural world. Drawing evidence from wide range literary sources chronicles to saints’ lives, host documentary like laws administrative records, occasional nods art historical archaeological testimony, presents his study over course eight chapters. Some these chapters proceed chronologically, while others treat particular topics emphasis on eighth ninth centuries. Taken together, monograph convincing mosaic centrality social cultural worlds elites.
Mediävistik