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020 _a9781107279605 (ebook)
020 _z9781107050655 (hardback)
020 _z9781107658394 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aDC65
_b.K66 2014
082 0 0 _a944/.013072
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100 1 _aKreiner, Jamie,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom / [electronic resource]
_cJamie Kreiner.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (342 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series ;
_vno. 96
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _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.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107050655
830 0 _aCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series ;
_vno. 96.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107279605
_zCambridge Books Online
999 _c236709
_d236709