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Title: The Carolingians : A Family Who Forged Europe by Pierre Riché, Michael Idomir Allen ISBN: 0-8122-1342-4 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.10 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of its Kind
Comment: Riche's treatment of the Carolingian dynasty and era is masterful, and towers above other such treatments. Beginning with the late Merovingian kings and the slow rise of the Carolingians, and ending with the establishment of the new regional dynasties this book covers almost three hundred years of history in dramatic fashion. Riche focuses on who the Carolingians were as persons and as rulers, giving his descriptions of events a feeling of real truth. At the same time, Riche rises above merely writing a narrative history. Woven into the story of the Carolingians is much academic discussion of policies, administration, linguistics, economics, military science and technology. Riche goes so far as to end the book with an eighty-page discussion of Carolingian society, focusing on the Church, the features of kingship, economics, and the "Carolingian Renaissance."
For those of you wary of Romance-language scholarship, know that the book does lack notes, but the sources are clearly stated within the text. As far as translation goes, this is the best French-into-English translations out there.
Given that there is only one map, it would be a good idea to get a historical atlas to accompany this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Charlemagne forged Europe
Comment: The author seems to be more preoccupied with describing countless abbeys, monasteries, shrines and convents than in taking the reader to the political and economic manifestos that Charlemagne - and much less so his descendants - fueled Western Europe with. Truly, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne and maybe Charles the Bald forged the transition from "Roman" to medieval Europe with imperative and dignified gusto, but no credit should be bestowed upon the more infamous Louis the Pious, Emperor Lothar and Louis the German. At times it appeared like Europe was going to implode, rather than explode during the reigns of some of these powerless rulers; and it was thanks to Ottonians, Capetians and Northern Spanish monarchs that Europe did attain a permanent "forging".
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding
Comment: An excellent book, with sufficient detail for professional historians yet presented clearly and engagingly enough for the non-expert. I highly recommend this for anyone with an interest in European history, and particularly in the Middle Ages, as the noble families who rose to power across Europe under the Carolingians -- the dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine; the house of Anjou, etc. -- figure prominently in the following centuries. The family trees at the back were invaluable -- but I was irked to note that the number of maps had been cut badk "at the request of the publisher," so there was only one...and it was inadequate.
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Title: Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne (Middle Ages) by Pierre Riche, Jo Ann McNamara ISBN: 0812210964 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World by Patrick J. Geary ISBN: 0195044584 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Capetian France 987-1328 (2nd Edition) by Elizabeth Hallam, Judith Everard ISBN: 0582404282 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Early Medieval Europe 300-1000 (History of Europe (St Martins Pr)(Paper)) by Roger Collins ISBN: 0312218869 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians by J. B. Bury, F. J. C. Hearnshaw ISBN: 0393003884 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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