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Kings, Courtiers and Imperium

Kings, Courtiers and Imperium

Barnwell, P. S.

Hardcover

Ancient GreeceGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0715627635
ISBN13: 9780715627631
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 26 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This work constitutes an appraisal of the development of kingship and royal administration in the kingdoms which, by the seventh century AD, had been established in the former Western Roman Empire. By viewing the seventh century in its own terms, and providing a detailed critique of the primary sources, the author sets out to show that kings were stronger than has often been thought, and their administration more sophisticated. A feature of his analysis is its setting of the evidence for early Anglo-Saxon England alongside that relating to the continental kingdoms. The evolution of governmental structures in a period increasingly remote from the imperial past is traced, as is the relationship of the barbarian kingdoms to the Byzantine Empire, and it is argued that, despite emergent differences between the kingdoms, many of their administrative institutions continued to be influenced by a common inheritence of Roman traditions.

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