Forests, parks, palaces, and the power of place in early medieval kingship
David Rollason
Forests, parks and palaces were closely associated, so that could not only have their own parks, but often occupied liminal positions between the forest more intensively cultivated land, or surrounded by forest. The power which forests gave to is here analysed in terms of categories derived from M ax W eber's work: bureaucratic, personal ideological. first involved administration revenues deriving it; second relationship king communities, role hunting enhancing king's power; third ideological statements about make, whether similarity palace's situation heavenly kingdom, symbolic representation over powerful traditions, ideas literary constructs landscape embody.
Early Medieval Europe