Screen LibraryCarolingian Catalonia : politics, culture, and identity in an imperial province, 778-987 /
"A pedestrian strolling along Carrer Trafalgar, window shopping in Barcelona's Barri Gotic, may, if alert, catch a glimpse of a street sign indicating the Carrer Lluis el Piados - Louis the Pious Street. The street sign informs the reader that Louis was king of Aquitaine and conqueror of B...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought.
book 111 |
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| Summary: |
"A pedestrian strolling along Carrer Trafalgar, window shopping in Barcelona's Barri Gotic, may, if alert, catch a glimpse of a street sign indicating the Carrer Lluis el Piados - Louis the Pious Street. The street sign informs the reader that Louis was king of Aquitaine and conqueror of Barcelona in 804 (the date is now known to be 801). His street is very short, only a couple of blocks, in a city where more important avenues recall Catalonia's heroes of the high and late Middle Ages, when Catalonia was the centre of the Crown of Aragon's wealth and power in the western Mediterranean, or revolutionaries of the nineteenth century"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 321 pages : 1 illustration, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-314) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108474641 1108474640 |
| Index Number: | DP124 |
| CLC: | K551.8 |
| Call Number: | K551.8/C455 |
| Contents: | Gothic Catalonia and Septimania to 778 -- Creating the Spanish March, 778-840 -- March and monarchy, 840-878 -- Counts, church, and kings, 877-947 -- Learned culture in Carolingian Catalonia -- The march toward sovereignty, 947-988 -- Conclusion : Carolingian Catalonia, 778-987 |