Chapter Frontiers and fortifications in the Carolingian imperial imagination
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 narra...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1502012025-07-21T15:44:01Z Chapter Frontiers and fortifications in the Carolingian imperial imagination MacLean, Simon Middle Ages 9th century Italy Francia Carolingians Empire Castles Fortifications Frontiers Imperialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history 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. 2025-01-21T20:44:53Z 2025-01-21T20:44:53Z 2024-12-20T12:43:01Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20241220_9791221504163_377 2704-6079 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96583 9791221504163 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150201 eng Reti Medievali E-Book open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96583/1/42184.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.11 10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.11 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221504163 19 Florence open access |
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