Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Carolingian and Ottonian Centuries
Karl Leyser|Timothy Reuter
Karl Leyser's intuitive and imaginative historical writing drew on deep reading in the primary sources and, above all, an intimate knowledge of major historians period displayed this collection his work. It was contention that only through understanding minds such as Nithard, Regino Prum, Widukind Corvey Thietmar Merseburg, a reconstruction their outlook world, can we appreciate aristocratic worlds which these depicted works.