02248nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002100224082002000245100002900265245010200294264005200396300005900448336002600507337002600533338003600559490007600595500007300671520096400744776003501708830007701743856007101820999001901891CR9781107279605UkCbUP20180107143415.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||130607s2014||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781107279605 (ebook)  z9781107050655 (hardback)  z9781107658394 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aDC65 b.K66 201400a944/.0130722231 aKreiner, Jamie,eauthor.14aThe Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom / [electronic resource]cJamie Kreiner. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2014.  a1 online resource (342 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series ;vno. 96  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThis book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing political arguments in the form of hagiography, more to redefine the rules and resources of elite culture than to promote saints' cults. Jamie Kreiner explores how hagiographers were able to do this effectively, by layering their arguments with different rhetorical and cognitive strategies while keeping the surface narratives entertaining. The result was a subtle and captivating literature that gives us new ways of thinking about how ideas and institutions can change, and how the vibrancy of Merovingian culture inspired subsequent Carolingian developments.08iPrint version: z9781107050655 0aCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series ;vno. 96.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107279605zCambridge Books Online  c236709d236709