In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were outposts against the savagery of nature, bands of outlaws, and a myriad of pagan superstitions. Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne gives us a vivid and deeply textured picture of the fear and insecurity that drove people, great and humble alike, to draw together with one another, with their stronger neighbors, and with God and His saints, in search of protection and sustenance.
Riché makes extensive use of modern social history techniques and the tools of new studies on nutrition, disease, demography, and climatology, as well as art history and archaeology, to comprehend the Carolingian mentality and reconstruct the material culture of the early European world.

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne (The Middle Ages Series)

History

Riché, Pierre

Ancient Civilizations

University of Pennsylvania Press

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne (The Middle Ages)

Europe

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne

McNamara, Jop Ann, (Transl.)

Liverpool University Press

In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were outposts against the savagery of nature, bands of outlaws, and a myriad of pagan superstitions. Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne gives us a vivid and deeply textured picture of the fear and insecurity that drove people, great and humble alike, to draw together with one another, with their stronger neighbors, and with God and His saints, in search of protection and sustenance.Riché makes extensive use of modern social history techniques and the tools of new studies on nutrition, disease, demography, and climatology, as well as art history and archaeology, to comprehend the Carolingian mentality and reconstruct the material culture of the early European world.

Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: From the Sixth Through the Eighth Century

ACLS History E-Book Project

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Les Carolingiens: Une famille qui fit l'Europe (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hachette Littérature

Education et culture dans l'Occident barbare : VIe-VIIIe siècle (Points histoire) (French Edition)

Social Sciences

SEUIL

MANUALE SCHOLARIUM

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

BREPOLS PUBLISH

DICTIONNAIRE DES FRANCS TOME 1 LES MEROVINGIENS (01)

BARTILLAT

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