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- 9780230602472
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
0230602479
ISBN-13
9780230602472
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64178918
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
Xvi, 279 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Charlemagne's Mustache : and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Europe / France, Modern / General, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Series
The New Middle Ages Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Dutton's acute observations of small, apparently insignificant details are illuminating, and, with the confidence of a scholar who has a real command of his subject, he gives all his readers here new insights into many of the 'obscure corners' of Charlemagne's world."--Speculum "Applying profound erudition and an acute eye to small, seemingly insignificant details, Dutton illuminates a persistently obscure moment in European history. Dutton moves adeptly between written sources and pictures and invokes post-medieval parallels from Shakespeare to Gibbon to the Big Bang and discovers some important commonalities in unusual subjects--a pervasive anxiety about the natural world, for instance, residual paganism, and the need to structure social hierarchies. Even as he ponders the writing of history from materials as ephemeral as the etched wax tablets that are a leitmotiv in this wonderful book, he constructs a splendid new account that will be studied with profit and amusement by professional historians, students, and others interested in the formation of the Middle Ages."--Herbert L. Kessler, Professor of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University, "Dutton's acute observations of small, apparently insignificant details are illuminating, and, with the confidence of a scholar who has a real command of his subject, he gives all his readers here new insights into many of the 'obscure corners' of Charlemagne's world."-- Speculum "Applying profound erudition and an acute eye to small, seemingly insignificant details, Dutton illuminates a persistently obscure moment in European history. Dutton moves adeptly between written sources and pictures and invokes post-medieval parallels from Shakespeare to Gibbon to the Big Bang and discovers some important commonalities in unusual subjects--a pervasive anxiety about the natural world, for instance, residual paganism, and the need to structure social hierarchies. Even as he ponders the writing of history from materials as ephemeral as the etched wax tablets that are a leitmotiv in this wonderful book, he constructs a splendid new account that will be studied with profit and amusement by professional historians, students, and others interested in the formation of the Middle Ages."--Herbert L. Kessler, Professor of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University, "Dutton's acute observations of small, apparently insignificant details are illuminating, and, with the confidence of a scholar who has a real command of his subject, he gives all his readers here new insights into many of the obscure corners' of Charlemagne's world." - Speculum "Applying profound erudition and an acute eye to small, seemingly insignificant details, Dutton illuminates a persistently obscure moment in European history. Dutton moves adeptly between written sources and pictures and invokes post-medieval parallels from Shakespeare to Gibbon to the Big Bang and discovers some important commonalities in unusual subjects - a pervasive anxiety about the natural world, for instance, residual paganism, and the need to structure social hierarchies. Even as he ponders the writing of history from materials as ephemeral as the etched wax tablets that are a leitmotiv in this wonderful book, he constructs a splendid new account that will be studied with profit and amusement by professional historians, students, and others interested in the formation of the Middle Ages." - Herbert L. Kessler, Professor of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
944/.014
Table Of Content
Charlemagne's Mustache Charlemagne, King of Beasts Karolus Magnus Scriptor Of Carolingian Kings and their Stars Whispering Secrets to a Dark Age A World Grown Old with Poets and Kings Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside
Synopsis
Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising., Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? How did medieval kings become stars? This book presents the reader with seven engaging studies of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world.
LC Classification Number
D111-203
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