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Charlemagne's Mustache P. Dutton

Charlemagne's Mustache By P. Dutton

Charlemagne's Mustache by P. Dutton

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Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers?

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Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age by P. Dutton

Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising.

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Dutton's acute observations of small, apparently insignificant details are illuminating, and, with the confidence of a scholar who has a real command of his subject, he gives all his readers here new insights into many of the obscure corners' of Charlemagne's world. - Speculum

Applying profound erudition and an acute eye to small, seemingly insignificant details, Dutton illuminates a persistently obscure moment in European history. Dutton moves adeptly between written sources and pictures and invokes post-medieval parallels from Shakespeare to Gibbon to the Big Bang and discovers some important commonalities in unusual subjects - a pervasive anxiety about the natural world, for instance, residual paganism, and the need to structure social hierarchies. Even as he ponders the writing of history from materials as ephemeral as the etched wax tablets that are a leitmotiv in this wonderful book, he constructs a splendid new account that will be studied with profit and amusement by professional historians, students, and others interested in the formation of the Middle Ages. - Herbert L. Kessler, Professor of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University

About P. Dutton

Paul Edward Dutton is Professor of History and Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

Table of Contents

Charlemagne's Mustache Charlemagne, King of Beasts Karolus Magnus Scriptor Of Carolingian Kings and their Stars Whispering Secrets to a Dark Age A World Grown Old with Poets and Kings Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside

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NLS9780230602472
9780230602472
0230602479
Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age by P. Dutton
P. Dutton
The New Middle Ages
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2008-12-15
279
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