MacLean, Simon (2024) Frontiers and fortifications in the Carolingian imperial imagination. In: Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond. Reti Medievali E-Book (48). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 141-159. ISBN 979-12-215-0416-3
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The relative absence of written references to fortifications in the Carolingian Empire is well known, but seems difficult to square with increasing evidence that such buildings were familiar features in the ninth-century Frankish landscape. I argue that one reason for this is that contemporary narratives participated in a Carolingian “way of seeing” which associated castle building with frontier territories and lands beyond rather than with the imperial heartlands. Fortified residences were linked in the Carolingian imperial imagination with negative characteristics such as secrecy and hiddenness, in contrast to the supposed openness of Frankish royal palaces.
| Tipologia del documento: | Capitolo di libro |
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| Informazioni aggiuntive: | Nella sezione "II. The frontiers of others I: Saxony and Lothringia". |
| Parole chiave: | Middle Ages, 9th century, Italy, Francia, Carolingians, empire, castles, fortifications, frontiers, imperialism |
| Soggetto: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History |
| Depositato da: | dr Vincenzo De Luise |
| Depositato il: | 08 Ago 2025 08:00 |
| Ultima modifica: | 08 Ago 2025 08:13 |
| URI: | http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/7173 |
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