Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination

This is the first full scholarly exploration of the relationship between the idea of peace and rulership through Europe’s formative centuries, setting the shifting terms of that relationship in their full historical, political and cultural context. In the process it offers new insights to the reception of late antique thought and imagery in the earlier Middle Ages, the range and distinctiveness of early medieval political thought, and the intellectual vitality of the period AD 500 to 900.