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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Charlemagne"”.
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The Administration of Spain Under Charles V, Spain's New Charlemagne
… was the most powerful ruler in Europe since Charlemagne. With a Germanic background, and speaking French, Charles became King of Spain in 1516. Yet secondary sources and available sixteenth century Spanish sources such as Spanish Royal Council records, local records of Castro Urdiales in …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
… 1164 by Rainald of Dassel, the canonisation of Charlemagne in 1165, the design of the Cappenberg head, the Barbarossa chandelier and the reliquary shrine of Saint Charlemagne were reinterpreted as elements of Frederick’s plan to resacralise the state. In my thesis I show that there was no such …
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Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne's Aachen
… complex of Aachen Germany during the reign of Charlemagne approximately spanning from the 790s to 814CE. The interplay between built space and its Social uses inform the larger Social understandings and interpretations of power and authority. Court poetry written by contemporaries and courtiers …
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The Role and Status of the Catholic Church in the Church-State Relationship Within the Roman Empire from A.D. 306 to 814
… (from Constantine's ascendancy to the throne, to Charlemagne's death).</p> <p>After the introductory chapter, chapter 2 analyzes church-state relationships at the time of Constantine. The chapter presents the Christian and Roman ways of understanding religion before Constantine, the changes that …
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Great Men, Heroic Deeds: The Influences of the Nine Heros During the Late Middle Age
… third tapestry depicts three Christian heroes: Charlemagne, Arthur, and Godfrey of Bouillon. From the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, these nine illustrious men appeared widely in art and literature. By examining medieval literature in conjunction with the image of chivalry and the …
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Alcuin's heirs : the early reception of Alcuin's De Rhetorica and De Dialectica.
… of the most influential (court) scholars under Charlemagne (771-814). My investigation depends on the close analysis of a single manuscript: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6407 CV). First, because it is the oldest manuscript containing De rhetorica and De dialectica. Secondly, because …
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Intellectual Networks and Royal Legitimacy: Religious Intellectuals and English Kings Between Conversion and the Rise of Wessex
… during the rise of the Carolingians where Charlemagne deliberately created networks of <em>sapientes</em> rather than recruit individuals to tap into preexisting networks. This then enabled him to recruit talent from a much broader set of territory (including England itself), bringing …
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Pairings in Cryptology: efficiency, security and applications
Abstract The study of pairings can be considered in so many di�erent ways that it may not be useless to state in a few words the plan which has been adopted, and the chief objects at which it has aimed. This is not an attempt to write the whole history of the pairings in cryptology, or to detail …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… and two Fierabras narratives, set in the age of Charlemagne. The former is continued to the years 1338-40 and its conclusion is partisan, celebrating Edward II and the Despensers and praying for Edward III’s victory. Egerton’s poems span 118 folios and are illustrated with 120 pen and wash …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
… to maintain independent sources of power.</p> <p>Charlemagne‟s silver table and the Cathedra Petri have traditionally been considered props for staging the Carolingian ruler as a cosmocrator through use of cosmological imagery. However, in the Carolingian world, as in the Byzantine, the …
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When Men Cry: Male Demonstrations of Grief in Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Sir Orfeo
… the course of the tale. The kings Hrothgar, Charlemagne, and Orfeo emerge in the tales as figures embodying and bearing the grief of their entire people. Rather than being criticized as weak or effeminate rulers, all three of these sorrowful kings are honored by the poets and by their …
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Historical Distance and Difference in the Twelfth-Century Middle High German Kaiserchronik
… the Empire as an imperial genealogy and in the Charlemagne episode, which marks the switch of perspective from an internally and essentially Roman one to a transalpine on, which, however, never fully asserts a fully conceptualised Germanness.
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A comparison of the response model/combined array method and the traditional methods for robust design
Genichi Taguchi alerted statisticians to the importance of considering variation as well as target when designing experiments. The Box-Taguchi method ( a variation of his classical method) has placed little emphasis on C-N interactions. In this study, an attempt is made to understand the C-N …
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Family Involvement, Clinician Beliefs and Child Psychiatric Rehospitalization
Psychiatric rehospitalization is estimated to fall between 30% and 50% among children and adolescents and is said to be the result of complex relationships between clinical and non-clinical child, family and service system factors. Psychiatric rehospitalization has been noted as an unfavorable …
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Sovranità Imperiale. Dal Simbolismo all'Espressione Architettonica nella Cultura di Corte Bizantina, Carolingia e Islamica (VIII-X secolo d.C.)
… as a literary genre. The biography of Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Theophilus, Basil I, as well as the Western Annales and Middle-Eastern histories and geographical works emphasized the role of building activity as a primary means of imperial governance. A fundamental shared aspect was …
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God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900
The historians writing in the Carolingian Empire, with a few important exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the …
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La citadelle de Namur : patrimoine fortifié comme enjeu patrimonial de développement durable
Quels sont les éléments clefs de conception entrant en compte lors de la restauration paysagère d’un ancien domaine fortifié au relief accidenté dans l’optique du développement durable ? Dans l’usage actuel, le mot « citadelle » est souvent mal employé pour désigner des forteresses de diverses …