The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Ildar H. Garipzanov
This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by sources, capitularies, and charter material. It structured, instead, numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, iconographic sources deals with signs, images, fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements symbolic language that was used the indirect negotiation maintenance authority. Building on comprehensive analysis royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, graphic signs responding to recent interpretations early medieval politics, this offers fresh view culture corresponding roles royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, human agents played there.