Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages /

Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Sept. 7-11, 1998 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.Includes bibliographical references (p. [547]-597) and index.Machine generated contents note: Topographies of power: introduction1 -- Chiris Wickham -- Cemeteries as places of power9 -- Heinrich Harke -- Topography and the creation of public space in early -- mtedieval Constantinople31 -- Leslie Brubaker -- Topography, celebration, and power: the making of a -- papal Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries45 -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monuments and memory: -- repossessing ancient remains in early medieval Gaul93 -- Bonnie Effros -- Cordoba in the Vita vel passio Argenteae119 -- Ann Christys -- Topographies of holy power in sixth-century Gaul137 -- Ian Wood -- Maastricht as a centre of power in the early Middle Ages155 -- Frans Theuws -- Aachen as a place of power217 -- Janet L. Nelson -- Convents, violence, and competition for power in -- seventh-century Francia243 -- Regine Le Jan -- One site, many meanings: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune as a -- place of power in the early Middle Ages271 -- Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and -- honour in the Frankish kingdoms291 -- Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329 -- Pablo C. Diaz -- Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century -- holy place361 -- Julia M.H. Smith -- People, places and power in Carolingian society397 -- Matthew Innes -- The regia and the hring - barbarian places of power439 -- Walter Pohl -- Asgard reconstructed? Gudme - a 'central place' in -- the North467 -- Lotte Hedeager -- The lower Vistula area as a 'region of power' and -- its continental contacts509 -- Przemyslaw Urbarczyk -- Topographies of Power: Some conclusions533 -- Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws -- Primary sources547 -- Literature554 -- Index597.Hollevoet, Yan