The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe

by Joyce Hill and Mary Swan

This collection of twenty-two original essays investigates the organising forces of social identity and power in early Medieval Europe. The essays take as their starting-points primary literary and historical texts, artefacts and archaeological evidence from a wide geographical area, ranging from the early Celtic world to the emerging city states of twelfth-century Italy. The essays are arranged in four sections which reflect the nexus of power in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503506682
• ISBN13: 9782503506685
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"