Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe

Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe

Author: John J. Contreni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781409420415

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A collection of essays, nine of the ten which appeared first between 1995 and 2005. It explores how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe.


Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe

Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe

Author: John J. Contreni

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1040242081

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Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005. Centered in the Carolingian age, they explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. Several essays consider the significance of numerical and scientific studies in the Carolingian curriculum, including the impact of Bede's scientific works in the schools and on the thought of John Scottus (Eriugena). Another reconstructs Eriugena's early career in light of his Glossae divinae historiae. Carolingian biblical culture is the subject of two essays, including a reading of Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Ezechiel that highlights the unfinished and unpublished commentary's critique of Carolingian society. A poem in the Anthologia Latina long ascribed to Octavian, the Roman emperor, is restored to the monastic culture of the ninth century. Finally, an article on the Laon Formulary, originally published in French in 1973, is here translated and revised.


The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture

The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture

Author: Herbert Schutz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9789004131491

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This book is an attempt to focus where pertinent on the Carolingian cultural inventory produced and assembled in the libraries, museums and architectural sites of Central Europe. This inventory allows conclusions which demonstrate the originality of the literary, artistic and architectural efforts.


Carolingian Learning, Masters and Manuscripts

Carolingian Learning, Masters and Manuscripts

Author: John J. Contreni

Publisher: Variorum Publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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The essays collected in this volume (including one hitherto unpublished, one in a revised version, and others now provided with additional notes) examine the intellectual and cultural life of early medieval western Europe from a number of different perspectives. The author argues that Carolingian learning must be seen within the general context of the Dynasty's attempt to reform society along Christian lines, and not as a medieval renaissance or revival of classical culture. The efforts of Carolingian leaders and scholars often led to varied results - one of the hallmarks of intellectual and cultural life of the period. Several of the essays focus on prominent themes in 9th century intellectual history - the arts, Bible, education, the role of the Irish - while others shed new light major Carolingian figures such as John Scottus Eriugena, Martin Scottus, Haimo of Auxerre, and Hincmar of Laon. The centrality of the manuscript to the reconstruction of intellectual life of the period is a theme common to all the essays.


The Gentle Voices of Teachers

The Gentle Voices of Teachers

Author: Richard Eugene Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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"Taken together, these essays provide a synthesis of current work in Carolingian cultural history - a rare commodity in English. This volume offers much that is provocative and challenging to scholars of cultural history and of the early Middle Ages, but it is presented in a style accessible to the nonspecialist as well. "The Gentle Voices of Teachers" is a major contribution to its field and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of education, music, religion, and art, and in the interaction of cultural and political history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


Carolingian Culture

Carolingian Culture

Author: Rosamond McKitterick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-11-11

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521405867

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This volume of specially-commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of renewal to emphasize the enormous creativity and inventiveness of the Franks. Carolingian culture provided the bedrock for the subsequent development of medieval European culture, and this is demonstrated amply by essays that are planned as a series of introductions to the study of each topic.


The Frankish Kings and Culture in the Early Middle Ages

The Frankish Kings and Culture in the Early Middle Ages

Author: Rosamond McKitterick

Publisher: Variorum Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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These 14 studies explore the implications of manuscript studies, examining the relationship between the church and the secular world; cover the phenomena of royal patronage and its manifestations; discuss aspects of literacy and orality of the period; and cover 10th-century culture.


The Carolingian World

The Carolingian World

Author: Marios Costambeys

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-05-12

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0521563666

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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.