Ducatus Baivariorum Das Bairische Herzogtum Der Agilolfinger (German Edition)

E-274: A. Hiersemann. Very Good. 1991. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart, Germany. 1991. 686 pgs. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters. Text in German. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Like modern Bavaria, historical Bavaria was also located in the geographical heart of Europe, at the intersection between "western" and "eastern", between northern Alpine and Italic-Italian cultures, states, and societies. The Bavarian ethnogenesis took place on this soil, characterized by its topography, on former Roman imperial soil in a historical tension between the Ostrogothic and the Frankish Empire, both of which were successor states to the Roman Empire. But not only the beginnings of Bavarian history, which the Bavarians themselves did not initially reflect on, but the entire history of the first Bavarian state played out as a permanent assertion between the Frankish west and north-west, the Lombard south and the Avar-Slavic-Carantanian east and south-east, between which the Bavarian Regnum had a turntable function. The Bavarians appeared relatively late, only towards the middle of the 6th century, as an active power on the European stage. Even then, however, it took a century and a half before the first outlines of a successful Bavarian domestic and foreign policy were reflected in written records. However, the end of the 7th and 8th centuries already represented a first high point in Bavarian history, which the country owed not least to its princely family, the Agilolfingers, who were able to assert themselves longer than any other against the growing omnipotence claims of the Franconian Carolingians . It was the time when the country was given its first prominent writer in the impressive personality of Bishop Arbeo from Freising, a skilful politician, important churchman and stupendous scholar, to whom Bavaria owes its first affectionate literary description. The more fluent written sources from then on form the basis of this investigation; we will hardly fall back on archaeological evidence... EB; Monographien Zur Geschichte Des Mittelalters; 9.6 X 6.5 X 2.1 inches; 686 pages .