State and Society in the Early Middle Ages The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000

Cover
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Copyright Info
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TOC
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Figures
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Abbreviations
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A Note on Nomenclature and Citations
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Acknowledgements
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Religion, Sources and Scope
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Early Medieval Politics: Problems of Approach
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Gifts to the Church: Patterns and Potential
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Spiritual Patronage and Gifts to the Church
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Funerary Ritual, Inheritance and Gift Exchange
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Gifts of Land and Social Power
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The Implications of Monastic Landholding
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Lorsch\'s Founders
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The Family of Otakar
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The Family of Hraban Maur
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Land as Property
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The Exploitation of Land and the Organisation of Estates
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Vertical Integration: Social Status
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Vertical Integration: Kinship and Lordship
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The Relationship Between Land and Power
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Patterns of Public Action
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Cities, Monasteries and Collective Action
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Rural Settlements
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Scribes as Guardians of Legal Tradition
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Counts and Public Meetings
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Local Political Leadership
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Violence, Ritual and Dispute Settlement
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The Texture of Local Power
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Approaching Early Medieval Government
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Military Service
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The Army Tax
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Royal Levies
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Roman to Merovingian
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The Merovingian Middle Rhine
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forging The Pax Karolina
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Maintaining the Pax Karolina
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The Politics of Division
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The Zenith of Carolingian Politics
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Crisis, Conflict and Consolidation
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The Transformation of the Early Medieval Polity
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Structural Characteristics of Early Medieval Polities
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Public and Private, State and Society
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Interpreting the Early Medieval West
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List of Primary Sources
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Bibliography of Secondary Works
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Index
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Titles in series
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