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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Comments and Bibliographical Updates
Abbreviations
1. The Rise of the Carolingians
I The Frankish aristocracy as supporters and opponents of Boniface
II Towards a Carolingian aristocracy
III Narratives of triumph and rituals of submission: Charlemagne’s mastering of Bavaria
IV Charlemagne and the aristocracy: captains and kings
2. Carolingian Authority
V The aristocracy in the service of the state in the Carolingian period
VI Bonds of power and bonds of association in the court circle of Louis the Pious
VII The Palace of Memory: the Carolingian court as political centre
VIII Semper Fideles? Loyauté envers les Carolingiens comme constituant de l’identité aristocratique
3. Crises in the Carolingian World
IX The world, the text and the Carolingian: royal, aristocratic and masculine identities in Nithard’s Histories
X Private bodies and the body politic in the divorce case of Lothar II
XI The Nearly Men: Boso of Vienne and Arnulf of Bavaria
XII ‘Sad stories of the death of kings’: narrative patterns and structures of authority in Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle
XIII The anxiety of sanctity: St Gerald of Aurillac and his Maker
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