The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)

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The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877) is written by Ildar Garipzanov and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9047433408 (ISBN 10) and 9789047433408 (ISBN 13).

This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.