Politics and History in the Tenth Century

Jason Glenn is Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the notes and other conventions; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Religious and Intellectual Landscapes: 1. Richer of Reims; 2. Cantor and canon at the cathedral of Reims; 3. Intellectual culture; 4. Monk at Saint-Remigius; Conclusions; Part II. Political History: 5. A Frankish civil war, 987–991; 6. Archbishop Gerbert of Reims, 981–988; 7. Richer and his narrative; 8. A tenth-century treasure; Conclusions; Part III. Historian and Community, Past and Present: 9. Flodoard of Reims; 10. Carolingians and Robertians, 888–929; 11. The contested see of Reims, 925–948; 12. Kingship and community; Conclusions; Epilogue: a curious journey; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

"Glenn's work combines many sophisticated literary and historical techniques to be a model of this sort of study." Daniel Boice