- Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond
- A cura di Maddalena Betti, Francesco Borri, Stefano Gasparri
Frontiers and fortifications in the Carolingian imperial imagination
- Simon MacLean
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.11
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.
- Keywords:
- Middle Ages,
- 9th century,
- Italy,
- Francia,
- Carolingians,
- Empire,
- Castles,
- Fortifications,
- Frontiers,
- Imperialism,
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0002-3543-7734
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Titolo del capitolo
Frontiers and fortifications in the Carolingian imperial imagination
Autori
Simon MacLean
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.11
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond
Curatori
Maddalena Betti, Francesco Borri, Stefano Gasparri
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
354
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3
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979-12-215-0415-6
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979-12-215-0416-3
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979-12-215-0418-7
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Reti Medievali E-Book
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2704-6362
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2704-6079