Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe (History Series, 42)

Frontmatter (page N/A) Acknowledgments (page vi) Preface (page vii) Abbreviations (page x) 1 Queens as Jezebels: Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History (page 1) 2 On the Limits of the Carolingian Renaissance (page 49) 3 Royal Saints and Early Medieval Kingship (page 69) 4 Charles the Bald and the Church in Town and Countryside (page 75) 5 Legislation and Consensus in the Reign of Charles the Bald (page 91) 6 The Church's Military Service in the Ninth Century: a Contemporary Comparative View? (page 117) 7 Kingship, Law and Liturgy in the Political Thought of Hincmar of Rheims (page 133) 8 The Annals of St. Bertin (page 173) 9 Public Histories and Private History in the Work of Nithard (page 195) 10 National Synods, Kingship as Office, and Royal Anointing: An Early Medieval Syndrome (page 239) 11 Symbols in Context: Rulers' Inauguration Rituals in Byzantium and the West in the Early Middle Ages (page 259) 12 Inauguration Rituals (page 283) 13 The Problem of King Alfred's Royal Anointing (page 309) 14 Ritual and Reality in the Early Medieval Ordines (page 329) 15 The Earliest Surviving Royal Ordo: Some Liturgical and Historical Aspects (page 341) 16 The Second English Ordo (page 361) 17 The Rites of the Conqueror (page 375) Index (page 403)