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Vol. XVI The Light and The Dark. A cultural history of dualism

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Dr. P.F.M. Fontaine is geboren op 11 april 1921 in Amsterdam. Na zijn opleiding aan het gymnasium studeerde hij geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam van 1939-1947. Hij moest zijn studie van 1943-1945 onderbreken, omdat hem door de bezetter de toegang tot de universiteit werd ontzegd. Fontaine was na de oorlog eerst een aantal jaren werkzaam bij het instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. Daarna was hij achtereenvolgens leraar geschiedenis en docent didactiek geschiedenis aan de UVA en aan de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. Hij heeft diverse publicaties op zijn naam staan, onder andere een geschiedenisboek voor leerlingen van scholen voor vhmo, wat vele herdrukken beleefde en andere werken op zijn vakgebied. Verder schreef hij The light and the Dark. A cultural history of dualism, in zestien delen. Hij is een actief lid van de New York Academy of Sciences.
Fontaine werd vorig jaar door het International Biographical Centre te Cambridge (GB) opgenomen onder de tweeduizend most outstanding scholars of this century. In november 2001 werd hij door een grote internationale commissie uitgeroepen tot `international man of the year 2001`.
Het American Biographical Institute in Raleigh (North Carolina) bereidt een uitgave voor van Great Minds of the Century. Fontaine zal eveneens in dat boek worden opgenomen.

Kijk voor meer informatie op de website van Dr. P.F.M. Fontaine

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Beschrijving

Imperialism in Medieval History II
Dualism in German History I

Volume XVI of The Light and the Dark. A cultural history of dualism is the second volume of the series on the Middle Ages. The Volumes XV-XVIII all have or will have as their subject medieval imperialism. Imperialism is something dualistic, which means that it contains an unsolvable opposition, namely, that of the imperialistic power and the states, nations, tribes, which are forced, almost always willy-nilly, into an empire; often they defend themselves with all their might. Sometimes they are even threatened with physical extinction. In any case they lose their independent existence.
Ch. I describes the history of the Merovingian kingdoms of the Franks, beginning with King Clovis, who was a great conqueror. Starting from the rather small territory of the Salian Franks around Tournai in Belgium around 500, he and his successors conquered all of France and Belgium, the southern half of the Netherlands, and a considerable part of western Germany. Ch. II describes how the Merovingians were succeeded by the Carolingians. Their first kings, Pepin III the Short and Charlemagne, were also great conquerors. Pepin intervened in Italy, defeated the Lombards, and founded the Papal States. His son and successor Charlemagne made an end of the Lombard kingdom in northern Italy and became its king himself. From then on Italy always played an important role in the imperial politics of western Europe. Charlemagne also recreated the Roman Emperor by being crowned as emperor in Rome in 800. In Germany he annexed Bavaria and made an end of Saxon independence in long and bloody wars, during which a great part of the Saxon nation was annihilated. After his reign there were no new conquests; Frankish history was characterized by many divisions of the empire and by endless infighting.
Germany broke away from the Frankish Empire in 911 (Ch. III). In 919 Henry I the Fowler founded the Saxon dynasty, which ruled until 1024. Otto I the Great became the first emperor of the German Empire, also called the Holy Roman Empire, because this empire too considered itself as the legitimate successor of the Roman Empire. Non-German parts of this empire were Burgundy-Provence and Lombardy. Every German king had to cope with the particularism of parts of the empire an their rulers, especially of Bavaria and Saxony. Violent revolts and civil wars were the result. In Italy too there was much resistance to German rule.

For more information about `The Light and the Dark`- series go to Fontaine’s own website:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/piet.fontaine

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