Carolingian Renaissance Archives

Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance

November 23, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This study opens with a historical account of Corbie from its foundation until the reign of Charles the Simple, which clarifies the political importance of the abbey and its relations with rulers and bishops.

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Scholars, Teachers and Students in Early Medieval Europe: Towards a Total Network

September 30, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This talk, part of a larger project, is concerned with intellectuals (scholars, teachers and their students) active in the late eighth through ninth centuries, a period usually referred to as the Carolingian Renaissance.

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Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy

July 16, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Carolingian Renaissance, Carolingians, Early Middle Ages, Eighth Century, Ethnography, Fall of the Roman Empire, Fifth Century, Franks, Germania, Getica, Goths, Greek, Herwig Wolfram, Historiography, History of the Lombards, Italo-Greek, Italy, Jordanes, Lombards, Nationalism, Odoacer, Patrick Amory, Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus), Roman Empire, Sixth Century

Charlemagne: A Frank Analysis of Imperialism in the 8th and 9th Centuries

December 27, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Charlemagne has been approached by historians because of the pivotal role he fills as the Father of a Continent. His kingdom spread across Europe and renewed the culture of the Western World; a “mini-Renaissance” that shifted the focal point of Europe away from crumbling Rome.

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Behind the Veil: The rise of female monasticism and the double house

September 29, 2013 By Medievalists.net

In this thesis I aim to restore the contemporary views of female monasticism that have been marginalized in current historiography. By evaluating the primary source material on women in monasticism, I intend to recapture the complex links between female religious communities and the wider social, cultural and political world of the Frankish kingdoms.

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Exegesis According to the Rules of Philosophy or the Rule of Faith?: Methodological Conflict in the Ninth-Century Predestination Controversy

December 16, 2012 By Medievalists.net

The development of biblical exegesis, as Contreni shows, was rapid, but not homogeneous. On the one hand, one of the main ways to acquire biblical wisdom was to rely on the interpretations and teaching of the Holy Fathers, whose texts were studied, assimilated, simplified, collected, and taught. On the other hand, Alcuin’s revival of the liberal arts6 paved the way for the rise of another method of biblical exegesis.

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Christian Living Explained: Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis liber in a Carolingian Instructional Manual

November 3, 2012 By Medievalists.net

Another paper from the yesterday’s SESSION I: Lived Religion in the Middle Ages. This paper focused on Alcuin of York’s contribution to the standardisation of Carolingian Christian texts for pastoral instruction.