By Rosamond McKitterick
This quantity of the hot Cambridge Medieval background covers many of the interval of Frankish and Carolingian dominance in western Europe. It was once one in all impressive political and cultural coherence, mixed with an important, very different and formative advancements in each sphere of lifestyles. Adopting an interdisciplinary method, the authors learn the interplay among rulers and governed, how strength and authority really labored, and the society and tradition of Europe as a complete. the quantity is split into 4 elements. half I encompasses the occasions and political advancements within the complete of the British Isles, the west and east Frankish kingdoms, Scandinavia, the Slavic and Balkan areas, Spain, Italy, and people points of Byzantine and Muslim background which impinged at the west among c. seven hundred and c. 900. elements II, III and IV disguise subject matters and issues touching on church and society, and cultural and highbrow advancements.
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63 Clearer distinctions need to be maintained between the legislation of rulers, notably that of the Carolingians in capitularies, and the laws embodied in the so-called Germanic leges. If laws are an ambiguous, if crucial, category of evidence, the formularies for charters and the extant charters themselves provide an indication of the special importance attached to the written word and its correct application, quite apart from what they reveal about the structure and affiliations of many early medieval communities.
They establish that writing had its own autonomous conventions and structures quite distinct from those of the spoken word, and this is nowhere more apparent than in such non-literary material as the legal documents of the early middle ages and the texts of various genres designed for record-keeping alluded to above. Written language is fundamentally the textual counterpart of the spoken language, rather than writing being dependent on the spoken word. As Nees demonstrates, illustrations in manuscripts and sculpture often enjoy a close relationship with writing as well.
Noble, chapter 21 below. See Contreni and Ganz, chapters 27-9 below. * McKitterick, p. 71 below. McKitterick, p. 78 below. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 14 ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK investigated by McCormick and Kennedy,48 illustrate the practical possibilities for communications and their political and economic framework. We have to reckon with a continued use of parts at least of the Roman road network and of the Alpine passes (mostly Mont Cenis and the Great St Bernard Pass in the early middle ages).