Property, politics and the problem of the Carolingian state
Matthew Innes
Book synopsis: This is a controversial issue in several ways. There are still significant differences between the different research traditions Europe , which affects both interests and patterns of interpretation. Leading representatives International Medieval Research treat approaches broad diachronic synchronous comparison. The aim this volume on one hand sometimes limited national to pass matter thus other hand, extract debate from one-sided legal- institutional perspective older consider new ( ethnographic cultural, textual ) aspects take central theme present therefore, less solution terminological problem whether term 'state' for early medieval kingdoms applicable at all but rather question how first millennium AD, political integration was reached order contribution study historical processes should be given, Christian secular institutions monarchy people helped establish those regional communities social structures interaction aristocracy Europe, long continue after end Middle Ages has been established.
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