Peaceful kings : peace, power, and the early medieval political imagination /
A scholarly exploration of the relationship between the idea of peace & rulership through Europe's formative centuries, 'Peaceful Kings' asks what peace meant to early medieval people, & to what extent royal intentions endeavoured to meet collective expectations.
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Solomon in Metz, 869 ; Scope of this study ; Cows, cloaks, swords, and hostages ; Ideal, reality, and textuality ; Peace in the early Medieval imagination
- Solomon's Temple, Augustus' Altar, and Edwin's Roads : peace in the political imagination. From sea to sea : Bede and Edwin ; Forgetting the Ara Pacis ; Testament and commentary ; Peace in our time : liturgical petitions for peace ; The limits of earthly peace, Augustine and his early medieval readers ; Peace outside the Pax Romana
- After the Pax Romana. Peace in transition ; Vandal variations ; Pax et abundantia : Gibichung Burgundy ; Brave men are always modest in peace- : Ostogothic Italy ; Dipose our days in your peace : Gregory the Great ; The oil of peace and the wine of the law : Visigothic Spain ; Merovingian Francia ; Legislating for Caritas : the Treaty of Andelot (November 587) ; Ipse pacificus velut Salomon : the Liber historiae Francorum
- Dominus Pacificus : the age of Charlemagne. Patterns of peace in Carolingian culture ; Early Carolingian political thought ; Carolus magnus et pacificus ; Rewriting a peaceful past : Annales Mettenses priores
- New Solomons. Lessons in rulership : Smaragdus of St-Mihel ; Peace, order, and Louis the Pious ; Ermoldus Nigellus' epic of peace ; Agobardus pax sit : the polemics of Agobard Timo ; Lamenting lost peace : Florus of Lyons' Augustinian vision ; Dhuoda of Septimania ; Regimes of fraternal peace ; The Strasbourg oaths ; Coventus, colloquia, pax, amicitia ; Solomon's return : Charles the Bald ; Hincmar of Rheims ; The lilies of peace and war's roses' : Sedulius Scottus ; An apostle amonst the apostles' : Pope Nicholas I ; Preaches peace
- The wise must hold meetings with the wise : Anglo-Saxon England. Aldhelm, Wealdhere, and Bede ; Creating kingship : the first English ordo ; Gif we đa stilnesse habbap : peace in King Alfred's political thought
- Conclusion.