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Smith, J. M. H. "Carolingian Brittany." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354786.
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Behaim, Jelena. "Architectural Landscape at the Periphery of Carolingian Empire. Croatian Historical Territory and Marca Hispanica." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673109.
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Fa exactament 1220 anys, el dia 25 de desembre de 800, el vell continent va rebre el primer hereu formal del món antic, el nou unificador d'Europa: Carlemany. Aquest fet va transformar el poderós regne dels francs en l'Imperi Carolingi que en el moment de la seva creació cobriria els territoris des de l'àrea sud dels Pirineus fins al riu Elba a l'actual Alemanya Oriental, baixant cap al sud a través de Baviera i Caríntia, fins a la costa oriental de l'Adriàtic i a Ístria. El primer i l'últim dels territoris esmentats han motivat aquesta dissertació. Encara que més de 1.300 quilòmetres es van interposar entre ells, en aquest moment de la història eren veïns del mateix governant, i com a tals van ser testimonis de l'expansió del territori franc en etapes cronològiques gairebé simultànies. Als peus dels Pirineus, la frontera baixava finalment fins al riu Llobregat, al costat de la Barcino romana, mentre que pel costat oriental abastava la península d'Ístria.
La investigació presenta una anàlisi comparativa de paisatges i de models arquitectònics en aquests territoris perifèrics de l'Imperi Carolingi: Ístria i Marca Hispànica. No obstant això, per complementar-la i oferir una visió ampliada del context tant dels processos històrics com arquitectònics, els territoris del Ducatus Croatiae i del Regnum Asturorum s'han inclòs en la discussió. Per tant, dues parts essencials formen la columna vertebral d'aquesta anàlisi: les zones geogràfiques del sud-oest i sud-est de l'Imperi, així com els territoris que es troben fora d'ell. S’han pres com a models exemples de l'arquitectura alt-medieval datats en el període de l'expansió carolíngia (finals de segle VIII i durant el segle IX) d'Ístria i del Ducatus Croatiae, que han estat confrontats amb exemples dels comtats catalans i del Regnum Asturorum mitjançant un enfocament sincrònic.
L'objectiu principal és posar les bases i proporcionar els paràmetres per a noves reflexions sobre els models de funcionament del paisatge urbà i rural de l'alta edat mitjana a través de diversos problemes particulars. L'especial atenció s’ha portat sobre l'impacte mutu i al nivell de la seva intensitat entre el concepte expansionista carolingi de renovatio imperii i els substrats històrics locals (bizantí i visigot) que han determinat el paisatge històric i arquitectònic durant els segles anteriors a l'arribada dels francs. Els complexos processos d'interacció i impregnació han donat com a resultat la supervivència i el canvi, així com la desaparició i aparició de noves formes i motius.Hace exactamente 1220 años, el día 25 de diciembre de 800, el viejo continente recibió el primer heredero formal del mundo antiguo, el nuevo unificador de Europa: Carlomagno. Ese hecho transformó el poderoso reino de los francos en el Imperio Carolingio que en el momento de su creación cubriría los territorios desde el área sur de los Pirineos hasta el río Elba en la actual Alemania Oriental, bajando hacia el sur a través de Baviera y Carintia, hasta la costa oriental del Adriático e Istria. El primero y el último de los territorios mencionados han motivado esta disertación. Aunque más de 1.300 kilómetros se interpusieron entre ellos, en ese momento de la historia eran vecinos del mismo gobernante, y como tales fueron testigos de la expansión del territorio franco en etapas cronológicas casi simultáneas. A los pies de los Pirineos, la frontera descendía finalmente hasta el río Llobregat, junto a la Barcino romana, mientras que por el lado oriental abarcaba la península de Istria. La investigación presenta un análisis comparativo de paisajes y de modelos arquitectónicos en estos territorios periféricos del Imperio Carolingio: Istria y Marca Hispánica. Sin embargo, para complementarla y ofrecer una visión ampliada del contexto tanto de los procesos históricos como arquitectónicos, los territorios del Ducatus Croatiae y del Regnum Asturorum se han incluido en la discusión. Por lo tanto, dos partes esenciales forman la columna vertebral de este análisis: las zonas geográficas del suroeste y sureste del Imperio, así como los territorios que se encuentran fuera de él. Se han tomado como modelos, ejemplos de la arquitectura altomedieval fechados en el período de la expansión carolingia (finales del siglo VIII y durante el siglo IX) de Istria y del Ducatus Croatiae, que han sido confrontados con ejemplos de los condados catalanes y del Regnum Asturorum mediante un enfoque sincrónico. El objetivo principal es sentar las bases y proporcionar los parámetros para nuevas reflexiones sobre los modelos de funcionamiento del paisaje urbano y rural de la Alta Edad Media a través de varios problemas particulares. Se ha prestado especial atención al impacto mutuo y al nivel de su intensidad entre el concepto expansionista carolingio de renovatio imperii y los sustratos históricos locales (bizantino y visigodo) que han determinado el paisaje histórico y arquitectónico durante los siglos anteriores a la llegada de los francos. Los complejos procesos de interacción e impregnación han dado como resultado la supervivencia y el cambio, así como la desaparición y aparición de nuevas formas y motivos.
Exactly 1220 years ago, on Christmas Day December 25, 800, the old continent got the first formal heir of the ancient world, the new unifier of Europe - Charlemagne. This transformed the powerful Frankish kingdom into the Empire that at the time of its inception would cover the area from the south side of the Pyrenees to the River Elba in present-day East Germany, and south across Bavaria and Carinthia to the eastern Adriatic coast and Istria. The first and the last of the mentioned territories motivated the following dissertation. Although more than 1,300 kilometres stood between them, at that time in history, they were the neighbours of the same ruler, and as such witnessed the expansion of the Frankish territory in almost simultaneous chronological stages. At the foot of the Pyrenees, the border eventually descended to the river Llobregat, next to the Roman Barcino, while on the eastern side it encompassed the Istrian peninsula. The research presents a comparative analysis of architectural models on these peripheral territories of the Carolingian Empire: Istria and Marca Hispanica. However, in order to complement this research and offer an expanded view of the context of both the historical and the architectural processes, the territories of the Principality of Croatia (Ducatus Croatiae) and the Kingdom of Asturias (Regnum Asturorum) have been included in the discussion. Therefore, two essential parts form the backbone of this comparative analysis - the geographical zones of the southwest and the southeast of the Empire, as well as the territories just outside of it. Examples of the early medieval architecture dated to the period of the Carolingian expansion (end of the 8th and during the 9th century) from Istria and the Principality of Croatia were taken as models which were confronted with Catalan and Asturian examples through a synchronous approach. The main objective of this dissertation was to lay the foundations and provide the parameters for further reflections on the models of functioning of the early medieval urban and rural landscape through several particular problems. Special attention was given to the mutual impact and the level of its intensity between the Carolingian expansionistic concept of renovatio imperii and the local historical substrates (Byzantine and Visigothic) which have shaped the landscape, as well as the society, during the centuries prior to the Frankish campaigns.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Història de l'Art i Musicologia
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Chevalier-Royet, Caroline. "Lectures des livres des Rois à l’époque carolingienne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040192.
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À l’apogée de la Renaissance carolingienne, cinq traités exégétiques sont consacrés aux livres des Rois en l’espace étroit de quelques décennies, entre 800 et 840 environ. Deux d’entre eux, un recueil de quaestiones dit du « pseudo-Jérôme » et un florilège anonyme inédit transmis par le manuscrit Paris, BnF, lat. 15 679, rassemblent des explications assez brèves. Les trois autres, composés par de célèbres et prolixes exégètes, Claude de Turin, Raban Maur et Angélome de Luxeuil, sont de longs commentaires continus. Ces commentateurs font œuvre nouvelle, à l’intérieur de la tradition exégétique chrétienne, en recueillant la tradition patristique éparse, en l’ordonnant et en l’actualisant avec leurs propres mots pour donner une lecture suivie des livres des Rois. L’étude des variations et des interprétations nouvelles procurées par ces traités offre à l’historien un accès direct aux représentations nourrissant les débats carolingiens sur la distribution du pouvoir, l’ordonnancement de la société terrestre et ses liens avec la cité céleste. Ces commentaires donnent l’image d’une société terrestre équilibrée où sphère temporelle et sphère religieuse ne s’opposent pas : les recteurs terrestres, rois et clercs, œuvrent de conserve afin de défendre l’unité de l’Église et de la foi et de diffuser le message biblique. Le rôle primordial revient cependant au prophète qui, parce qu’il est érudit et sait déchiffrer le message divin, guide par ses paroles les recteurs et les chrétiens vers le SalutWithin the short period of a few decades, between 800 and about 840, five exegetical treatises on the books of Kings were composed during the Carolingian Renaissance. Two of them, the one by the pseudo-Jerome and an anonymous unpublished one, which is transmitted by the manuscript Paris, BnF, lat.15 679, are a collection of brief explanations. The three others, written by the well-known exegetes, Claude of Turin, Raban Maur and Angélome of Luxeuil, are long continuous commentaries. These commentators wrote something new, within the exegetical Christian tradition, by assembling the dispersed patristic tradition arranging and updating it in their own words to present a coherent reading of the Books of Kings. A study of the variations and new interpretations given by these treatises allow the historian to have direct hold on the representations underlying the Carolingian debates on the distribution of power, the organization of the earthly society and its links with the heavenly city. These commentaries draw the picture of a well balanced earthly society where the temporal and the religious are not antagonistic towards each other : rectors on earth, kings and clerics, work together to defend the unity of the Church and the unity of faith, and to spread the Biblical message. Nevertheless, the most influential role falls to the prophet who, being a scholar and being able to decipher the holy message, through his words, guides rectors and Christians to salvation
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Faulkner, T. W. G. "The Frankish leges in the Carolingian period." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598956.
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The so-called leges barbarorum, legal texts composed between the sixth and the eight centuries, were copied extraordinarily frequently in the ninth century, but not a single citation of a lex has been found in a Frankish charter or any kind of record of a dispute. Establishing how they were used is therefore problematic. Scholars in the last few decades have argued at length on the question of the extent of the practical, ‘legal’ use of the texts, and other possible uses, centred on ideology. This thesis attempts once again to make sense of the manuscripts of lex in the Carolingian period, focussing on important evidence, so far analysed incompletely in this context. The work is grounded in recent studies of dispute settlement, which consciously moved away from consideration of the prescriptive texts, but also uses the most helpful of the textual work of the German Rechtsschule. It examines the notion of practical use of leges, and of other symbolic uses suggested above all by the Wormald: their expression of royal ideology, and of ethnic identity. In the first two chapters I concentrated on texts in the genre of lex constructed in the Carolingian period, especially the Lex Saxonum and the so-called Lex Francorum Chamavorum, and also examine, briefly, the use of the seventh-century Lex Ribuaria. I provide a more detailed analysis of the context of their use than so far attempted, using charters and narratives, and link this with a study of the texts and their variations in the manuscripts. In the later chapters I concentrate of the relationship between royal authority, legal practice and lex. Chapter 3 focuses on the “capitularies adding to the leges”. I extend some recent approaches to the production of capitularies and argue that some allow insight into how leges might have been interpreted in real disputes. Chapter 4 draws attention to indirect evidence in compilations, manuscript variations and annotations, that leges were sometimes read to help understand social, not just ethnic, identities, and argues that this reading can be related to wider Carolingian-era debates concerning the relationship between social and clerical status, freedom and unfreedom. An important result is that the leges were read for purposes including the settlement of legal cases, but that they were interpreted broadly; they might inform the consensus by which a case was settled, as a reference point for negotiation, but should not be seen as providing fixed rules. Finally in Chapter 5, I offer a detailed examination of the manuscripts of the leges-scriptorium identified by Bischoff and McKitterick. I trace the relationship between the texts the manuscripts copied, and their wider influence.
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Hosoe, Kristina Maria. "Regulae and Reform in Carolingian Monastic Hagiography." Thesis, Yale University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3580711.
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This study seeks to discover what Carolingian monastic hagiography can tell us about monastic rules and customs in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, a time when a court-sponsored reform movement was shaking the foundations of traditional monastic practice. Reform legislation was trying to impose one rule—the Rule of Benedict—and one set of customs—written by the reformers—upon all monasteries of the realm, rejecting the other rules and customs by which monks had lived for centuries. Hagiography is one of the most important sources that monks produced to reveal the aspirations and self-identity of their order, but scholarship has never systematically used it to examine whether such radical reforms affected the way hagiography defined monastic perfection and the way it discussed rules and customs. This study bridges that gap, to find that hagiography provides a helpful counterbalance to the overly court-centric, legalistic approach to the reforms. Hagiographical evidence shows great continuity between Carolingian monastic ideals and those of earlier centuries, thus proving and contextualizing the fundamental failure of the reforms. Instead of discarding their past traditions to make room for a new, exclusively Benedictine tradition, Carolingian hagiographers portray a pluralistic monastic world in which many monastic rules and traditions can comfortably coexist, in which their own holy founders' customs are as valuable to their communities' spiritual development as the Rule of Benedict is. From the perspective of these monks, the Rule of Benedict is praiseworthy and can be used to legitimize their hagiographical heroes, but it remains merely one rule among many.
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Rembold, Ingrid Kristen. "The politics of Christianization in Carolingian Saxony." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708539.
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Jarrett, Jonathan Andrew. "Pathways of power in late-Carolingian Catalonia." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430440.
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Tibbetts, Tanya Nicole Sidney. "Uses of the Psalter in Carolingian St Gallen." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251873.
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Geiter, Steffan James. "The Church, State, and Literature of Carolingian France." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3076.
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This thesis examines the eighth century rise in power of the Carolingian Church and the Carolingian dynasty through an early promise of religious revival, monarchial revival, and increased Papal power. Such aims gained the Carolingians a powerful in the Church. Aided by Boniface (672-754 AD) and the Church, the Carolingians replaced the Merovingians in Francia. In conjunction with this revival, Church scholars dictated a reformation of kingship in treatises called the Speculum Principum. A king’s position became tremulous when they strayed from these rules, as it betrayed their alliance. Ultimately, Louis the Pious (778-840 AD) faced deposition after they disagreed on his appointments and adherence to the ideologies of the Speculum Principum.
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Screen, Elina Mary. "The reign of Lothar I (795-855), Emperor of the Franks, through the charter evidence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265432.
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Previous research has concentrated upon Lothar I's father, Louis the Pious, and his brother, Charles the Bald. While recent works have illuminated individual aspects of Lothar' s career (such as the manuscripts produced by his Court School, his coinages, and his commissioning of biblical exegesis), there has been no attempt to consider Lothar' s career more broadly, or to write the political history of his reign. The limited primary sources for Lothar are very largely biased against him, with the Annals of St-Bertin and Nithard's Histories, two of the most important works for the history of the period, being produced in Charles the Bald's hostile circle. This thesis uses for the first time the rich resource of Lothar' s 192 charters (including lost charters) to present a more rounded picture of Lothar. The palaeography, formulae and content of the charters are closely analysed. This analysis of the charter evidence reveals Lothar' s chancery and administration, and provides a picture of his court, its personnel and its politics. Lothar' s donations reveal his close links with the Church, especially the monastery of Prum, and the important role played by the women of the royal family at court. Through the charters, we may also approach Lothar' s changing perception of his status in the 820s and 830s, and his imperial ideology. _Lothar is revealed as a more complex and influential figure in his generation than the bias of the primary sources, and his neglect in the secondary material, would suggest.
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Maclean, Simon. "The reign of Charles III the Fat (876-888)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-reign-of-charles-iii-the-fat-876888(1976754e-d59d-4b79-928e-fbdd04fafe64).html.
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Nicholson, Monique Forthomme. "The Nachleben of Pelagius up to the Carolingian Renaissance." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5777.
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Varelli, Giovanni. "Musical notation and liturgical books in late Carolingian Nonantola." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/264172.
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The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order to develop a full understanding of the abbey’s role and importance in the first phases of development of the writing of music in the early Middle Ages. A Lombard foundation, Nonantola acquired much of its prestige from the links with the Carolingian court as early as the late eighth century. From the first decades after its foundation, the Po Valley abbey also benefited from an active scriptorium; this shaped a local type of text script that endured until after the fall of the Carolingian empire, when the abbey, including most of its library, was destroyed by the Hungarian invasion in 899 (§1). The study of the earliest surviving notated liturgical manuscripts revealed that, by the late ninth century, Nonantola already developed an institutional type of musical notation, making it the earliest known music script ever to be written in the Italic peninsula and, thus, among the earliest in Carolingian Europe (§§2–3). The unique design and use of musical signs showed that this northern Italic notation developed, for the most part, independently from a basic repertory of graphs derived from grammatical accents (§4). Finally, observations of the influences of the central Italic nota romana, which this study only began to explore, opened up the possibility that Nonantolan notation may preserve the oldest traces of graphic conventions for the representation of sound that can be associated with the city of Rome (§5). Placed between the northern and southern fringes of the Carolingian empire, the Benedictine abbey of Nonantola played an important role in the early history of music writing, and this study contributes to the breaking of new ground for further explorations.
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Chevalier-Royet, Caroline. "Lectures des livres des Rois à l’époque carolingienne." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2011. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=CacMS01.
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À l’apogée de la Renaissance carolingienne, cinq traités exégétiques sont consacrés aux livres des Rois en l’espace étroit de quelques décennies, entre 800 et 840 environ. Deux d’entre eux, un recueil de quaestiones dit du « pseudo-Jérôme » et un florilège anonyme inédit transmis par le manuscrit Paris, BnF, lat. 15 679, rassemblent des explications assez brèves. Les trois autres, composés par de célèbres et prolixes exégètes, Claude de Turin, Raban Maur et Angélome de Luxeuil, sont de longs commentaires continus. Ces commentateurs font œuvre nouvelle, à l’intérieur de la tradition exégétique chrétienne, en recueillant la tradition patristique éparse, en l’ordonnant et en l’actualisant avec leurs propres mots pour donner une lecture suivie des livres des Rois. L’étude des variations et des interprétations nouvelles procurées par ces traités offre à l’historien un accès direct aux représentations nourrissant les débats carolingiens sur la distribution du pouvoir, l’ordonnancement de la société terrestre et ses liens avec la cité céleste. Ces commentaires donnent l’image d’une société terrestre équilibrée où sphère temporelle et sphère religieuse ne s’opposent pas : les recteurs terrestres, rois et clercs, œuvrent de conserve afin de défendre l’unité de l’Église et de la foi et de diffuser le message biblique. Le rôle primordial revient cependant au prophète qui, parce qu’il est érudit et sait déchiffrer le message divin, guide par ses paroles les recteurs et les chrétiens vers le SalutWithin the short period of a few decades, between 800 and about 840, five exegetical treatises on the books of Kings were composed during the Carolingian Renaissance. Two of them, the one by the pseudo-Jerome and an anonymous unpublished one, which is transmitted by the manuscript Paris, BnF, lat.15 679, are a collection of brief explanations. The three others, written by the well-known exegetes, Claude of Turin, Raban Maur and Angélome of Luxeuil, are long continuous commentaries. These commentators wrote something new, within the exegetical Christian tradition, by assembling the dispersed patristic tradition arranging and updating it in their own words to present a coherent reading of the Books of Kings. A study of the variations and new interpretations given by these treatises allow the historian to have direct hold on the representations underlying the Carolingian debates on the distribution of power, the organization of the earthly society and its links with the heavenly city. These commentaries draw the picture of a well balanced earthly society where the temporal and the religious are not antagonistic towards each other : rectors on earth, kings and clerics, work together to defend the unity of the Church and the unity of faith, and to spread the Biblical message. Nevertheless, the most influential role falls to the prophet who, being a scholar and being able to decipher the holy message, through his words, guides rectors and Christians to salvation
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Choy, Renie S. "Intercessory prayer and the Carolingian monastic ideal, c. 750-820." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cde5fa39-47a2-4851-b230-307bc93cac58.
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The establishment of a new concept of intercessory prayer, from an activity sought of the individual holy man to an occupation characterizing an entire monastic community, has recently received much attention; historians have shown that the function of intercession had become, by the Carolingian period, the pre-eminent feature of early medieval monasticism. The role of early medieval monasteries as powerhouses of prayer has encouraged scholarly attention along two particular areas of interest: intercession within the system of medieval patronage and gift exchange, and monastic ritual elaboration. Missing in the main historiographical approaches is discussion concerning the place of intercessory prayer within the monastic ideal. This study therefore asks the central question, ‘What was the relationship between the intercessory function of monasticism and the ascetic concern for moral conversion in the time of the reforms of Benedict of Aniane, c. 750-820?’ The writings of Carolingian monastic reformers demonstrate that the chief concern of the monk was to seek and find perfection in God; it is the argument of this study that the elaborate liturgical intercession which characterized early medieval monasticism was coherent with this goal. The Introduction sets out to establish the continuity of the ascetic pursuit in the Carolingian monastic ideal with earlier monasticism. We then order our investigation by: i) proposing that monastic liturgical organization was meant to address the fundamental problem of human sin which impedes fruitful prayer, and that the additions of intercessory liturgy made by Benedict of Aniane should be seen as part of his pastoral concern for the holiness of monks (Chapter 1); ii) situating the specific intercessory performances of monastic communities – namely, the intercessory Mass and the Divine Office – within Carolingian monastic theology (Chapters 2 and 3); iii) examining how the prayer directed toward two groups of beneficiaries of intercession – fellow monks and rulers – was grounded on the the ascetic goals of moral conversion and pilgrimage toward the celestial kingdom (Chapters 4 and 5); and iv) addressing the question of what role Carolingian monastics meant for their intercessory prayers to play in society at large, and the extent to which general social concern was a priority in monastic intercession (Chapter 6). This study provides a detailed description of the ascetic ideal required for understanding the formalized ritual and patronized prayer of monasteries within its proper sphere of monastic spirituality. I conclude in particular that the increasing importance of monastic intercession was related to a heightened emphasis in Carolingian spiritual thought on the teleological theme of transformation both individual and cosmic. The intercessory function of early medieval monasticism suggests an incorporation of the spiritual pilgrimage of the wider world into the monk’s own individual discipline, and tied the monk’s ascesis to the larger story of the conversion of the world to God.
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Novokhatko, Ekaterina. "Religion, Imagination and Politics in Post-Carolingian Catalonia (10th – 12th centuries)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671679.
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Les fonts litúrgiques i hagiogràfiques llancen llum sobre els aspectes múltiples de la investigació històrica: història de les institucions i les seves biblioteques, de la transmissió de texts i llibres, de la reconstrucció dels arquetips i famílies de texts, història de les identitats, història cultural entre d’altres. Els acadèmics catalans han prestat una atenció significativa a les fonts litúrgiques i hagiogràfiques dels segles X al XII que es troben als arxius i biblioteques catalans i de França del sud. Aquesta varietat de fonts inclou els martirologis, llibres importants per l’ús quotidià a les institucions religioses medievals. No obstant això, aquestes fonts mai han estat analitzades a fons a través de la perspectiva de la història cultural i en termes de transmissió de festes i cultes de sants. La tesi presentada comença a omplir aquesta llacuna investigant els sis martirologis d’Ado de Viena, difosos durant el període postcarolíngi a tota la regió catalana. Aquest estudi sobre els martirologis revela com les noves festes litúrgiques i els nous cultes s’integren en la vida religiosa local, com i perquè les formes religioses particulars de veneració dels cultes i dels sants es desenvolupen i com es creen i reconstrueixen les xarxes de comunicació entre les diferents institucions religioses. L’anàlisi de cinc festes que reben la veneració major i més àmplia a la regió catalana (Sant Miquel, Sant Aleix, Sant Guerau, la Passió de la Imatge de Crist i la Transfiguració) llança el llum sobre la forma en què l’expansió dels ideals religiosos reflecteix les necessitats socials i polítiques de la època. Aquesta recerca explora les dades dels martirologis, no només dins del context microhistòric de la situació política y social a la regió catalana, sinó també des del punt de vista més ampli de la sinergia de varis conglomerats multiculturals en els espais mediterranis postcarolingis. La tesi examina el sorgiment, la difusió i l’adaptació de les tradicions litúrgiques per descobrir com aquests cultes poden haver influït en les institucions religioses diferents i haver estat integrats i adaptats a la vida religiosa local. La investigació demostrarà que aquests canvis, presents en els textos litúrgics i hagiogràfics difosos àmpliament, reflecteixen i defineixen les vies principals de transició de les sensibilitats litúrgiques carolíngies i romàniques mitjançant la materialització de la imaginació teològica i sensorial dels contemporanis.Las fuentes litúrgicas y hagiográficas arrojan luz sobre múltiples aspectos de la investigación histórica: historia de las instituciones y sus bibliotecas, de la transmisión de textos y libros, de la reconstrucción de arquetipos y familias de textos, historia de las identidades, historia cultural, entre otras. Los académicos catalanes han prestado una atención significativa a las fuentes litúrgicas y hagiográficas de los siglos X al XII que se encuentran en los archivos y bibliotecas catalanes y del sur de Francia. Entre esta considerable variedad de fuentes se encuentran los martirologios, libros importantes para el uso cotidiano en diferentes instituciones religiosas medievales. Sin embargo, estas fuentes nunca han sido analizadas a fondo a través de la perspectiva de la historia cultural y en términos de transmisión de fiestas y cultos de santos. Esta tesis, titulada "Religión, imaginación y política en la Cataluña postcarolingia", comienza a llenar este vacío investigando seis martirologios de Ado existentes y difundidos en el período postcarolingio en toda la región catalana. Este estudio sobre los martirologios revela cómo las nuevas fiestas litúrgicas y los nuevos cultos se integraron en la vida religiosa local, cómo y por qué se desarrollaron determinadas formas religiosas de veneración y cómo se crearon y reconstruyeron las redes de comunicación entre las diferentes instituciones religiosas. El análisis de cinco fiestas (San Miguel, San Alejo, San Geraldo, la Pasión de la Imagen de Dios y la Transfiguración) que recibieron mayor y más amplia veneración en toda la región arroja luz sobre la forma en que la expansión de los ideales religiosos reflejaba las necesidades sociales y políticas de la época. Esta investigación explora los datos de los martirologios, no sólo en el contexto microhistórico de la situación política y social de la región catalana, sino también desde la perspectiva más amplia de la sinergia de varios conglomerados multiculturales en los espacios mediterráneos postcarolingios. El proyecto tiene por objeto abordar el surgimiento, la difusión y la adaptación de las tradiciones litúrgicas para descubrir cómo estos cultos pueden haber influido en diversas instituciones religiosas y haberse integrado y adaptado a la vida religiosa local. Demostrará que estos cambios, presentes en textos litúrgicos y hagiográficos ampliamente difundidos, reflejan y definen las principales vías de transición de las sensibilidades litúrgicas carolingias y románicas mediante la materialización de la imaginación teológica y sensorial de los contemporáneos.
Liturgical and hagiographical sources shed light on multiple aspects of historical research: histories of institutions and their libraries, transmission of texts and books, reconstruction of prototypes and families of texts, history of identities, cultural history and many others. Catalan scholarship has paid significant attention to liturgical and hagiographical sources from the tenth to the twelfth centuries housed in Catalan and Southern French archives and libraries. Among this considerable variety of sources are martyrologies, important books for everyday use in different medieval religious institutions. However, these sources have never been thoroughly analysed through the lens of cultural history and in terms of the transmission of feasts and saints’ cults. My PhD project, entitled 'Religion, Imagination and Politics in Post-Carolingian Catalonia’, starts to fill this gap by investigating six extant martyrologies of Ado disseminated in the Post-Carolingian period throughout the Catalan region. This study on martyrologies reveals how new liturgical feasts and new cults were embedded in local religious life, how and why particular religious forms of veneration developed and how communication networks between different religious institutions were created and reconstructed. The analysis of five feasts that received increased and widespread veneration throughout the region—St. Michael, St. Alexius, St. Gerald, Passion of the Image of God and Transfiguration—sheds light on how the expansion of religious ideals reflected social and political needs of the time. This research explores data from the martyrologies not only in the microhistorical context of the political and social situation within the Catalan region, but also from the broader perspective of the synergy of various multicultural conglomerations in post-Carolingian Mediterranean spaces. My PhD aims to address the emergence, dissemination and adaptation of liturgical traditions in order to discover how these cults may have influenced various religious institutions and became integrated into, and adapted for, local religious life. It will demonstrate that these changes, brought into widely disseminated liturgical and hagiographical texts, reflect and define key paths of transition of Carolingian and Romanesque liturgical sensibilities through shaping the theological and sensory imagination of contemporaries.
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Hope, George Alexander. "The political development of the Carolingian Kingdom of Lotharingia, 870-925." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2847/.
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The subject of this thesis is the Carolingian regnum of Lotharingia in the years between the Treaty of Meersen in 870 and its incorporation into the kingdom of Henry I in 925. Traditionally, the history of this half-century in Lotharingia is told in conventional terms. Despite the loss of its king in 869 and subsequent division in 870, the regnum Lotharii apparently remained a coherent geo-political structure which, in maintaining a permanent presence in the landscape, provided a focus for contemporary political action, and thus a suitable and straightforward topic of subsequent historical investigation. This thesis challenges that traditional approach and demonstrates that, for much of the initial period following 870, the regnum Lotharii was precisely not such a coherent structure. Arguing that standard methodological approaches are flawed in seeing the survival of terminology as evidence of permanence in the political landscape, this thesis offers a more nuanced explanation, and shows that the terminology survived because it provided an elastic political legacy that could be deployed at opportune moments by either kings, or their challengers, in constructing images of their own power and authority. Lotharingia was a politically active unit by the early years of the tenth century and this thesis proceeds to show its emergence. It again exposes traditional explanations as unsatisfactory. This thesis offers an alternative explanation by proposing the emergence of a distinct aristocracy in Lotharingia only at the end of the ninth century. In re-examining the narrative and charter evidence, the thesis reveals this new identity as a reaction to a moment of crisis within the ranks of one particular aristocratic community. It was not a residual identity from an earlier period of political independence waiting for reactivation.
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Stone, Rachel Susan. "Masculinity, nobility and the moral instruction of the Carolingian lay elite." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/masculinity-nobility-and-the-moral-instruction-of-the-carolingian-lay-elite(eadaa1db-5f0f-43e8-8cc4-a50dd6286850).html.
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Koel, Jordan. "Art, Devotion, and the Utility of Sight in the Carolingian Church." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18309.
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This thesis is an exploration of Carolingian art within the context of religious devotion. The second chapter investigates the theoretical aspects related to the use of images by examining historical sources. These texts offer insight both into the types of anxieties images raised as well as contemporary attempts to reconcile these concerns. In order to determine how these theories were put into practice, the third chapter considers the manners in which the visual experience was orchestrated. To do so, shrines and reliquaries, as well as textual accounts describing encounters with them, are used to explore the messages that religious art conveyed and the means by which they did so. The fouirth chapter focuses on the figure of the maker of sacred art. The theories of religious art and implementation of them, as discussed in Chapters II and III, fundamentally relied on the craftsman who fashioned them.
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Taranu, Catalin. "The making of poetic history in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13941/.
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This thesis explores the alternative mode of early medieval history-writing manifested in Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian vernacular poetic texts like Beowulf and the Waltharius. While such sources have long been recognized to contain historical elements, they are usually considered the preserve of literary or linguistic study, since they are primarily labelled as ‘legendary’ or ‘fictional’ due to their many mythical or fantastic elements. This thesis approaches them as historical narratives from the perspective of the textual communities involved in their making and reception, not in order to unpick the pieces of ‘true history’ from ‘fiction’, but rather seeking to reconstruct the vernacular theory of history that informs these texts. In doing this, the present investigation critiques the theoretical underpinnings of previous scholarly approaches to these texts that are based on modern categories (such as the dichotomy history/fiction or on the tandem Germanic-heroic)which misrepresent the attitudes of the creators and audiences of vernacular ‘heroic’ narratives. This thesis employs a series of new approaches drawing on cognitive linguistics, rhizomatic and diffraction theory, leading to a recategorization of these texts as ‘poetic history’, an alternative mode of constructing narratives about the past that is based on different source materials, works according to a different poetics, and fulfils different sociocultural functions from those of early medieval historiography written by ‘proper’ historians such as Bede or chroniclers. Hence, the individual chapters will focus on these issues by exploring the poetics, narrative content, historical evolution, and socio-cultural functions of poetic history.
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Kitzinger, Beatrice. "Cross and Book: Late-Carolingian Breton Gospel Illumination and the Instrumental Cross." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10183.
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Crosses made in metal, paint, or stone stand at a singular intersection of past, present and future in the early medieval period. The historical cross of Golgotha is the source of such manufactured crosses’ form and power. Most also represent the theology of the Cross through their form and decoration, describing the soteriology of the crucifixion and anticipating its consummation at the end of time. As manufactured crosses recount the past and look forward to the eschaton, they concurrently function in the age of the Church, offering specific, contemporary points of access to all the larger cross-sign represents. In its multivalent identity, the cross’ status as the Church’s central sign reflects the Church’s own temporal position, simultaneously commemorating sacred history, functioning in the present day, and preparing for the Second Coming. Although rarely recognized, the Church-time form of the cross—which I term the “instrumental” cross—is often a discernable component of early medieval cross-objects and images. I argue that we can recognize the instrumental cross among the commemorative and proleptic aspects of the sign because a formal and conceptual language developed to articulate it. In its instrumental form, the cross becomes the sign of the Church in its role as mediator between Christians, Christ and the eschaton, affirming the indispensable place of man-made artwork in that project. The instrumental cross, in turn, signals the instrumentality of the many artworks into which it is incorporated. It plays a particularly important role in manuscripts. In the first half of the dissertation I define a class of visual strategies that communicate the instrumental identity of the cross. I treat works in many media in Chapter 1 and focus on manuscripts in Chapters 2–3. The second half of the dissertation concentrates upon the case studies of four complex, hitherto neglected gospel codices from ninth–tenth century western France. In each, the deep relationship between Church-time cross and gospel book drives a pictorial program that is crafted to define a specific codex as an manufactured instrument, made to integrate its community with the larger project of the Church for which the cross-sign stands.History of Art and Architecture
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Bullimore, Katherine. "Carolingian women and property holding in the St. Gall archive 700-920." Thesis, University of York, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246982.
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Blair, Sullivan. "Grammar and harmony : the written representation of musical sound in Carolingian treatises /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392686165.
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Garrison, Mary Delafield. "Alcuin's world through his letters and verse." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251592.
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Ashley, Scott. "Representations of the barbarian in the early Medieval West c. 800-1100." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287542.
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Pain, Marie-Laure. "L'architecture monastique sous le règne de Charlemagne." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100144/document.
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Notre sujet porte sur l’étude des complexes monastiques construits – ou du moins dont les constructions ont débuté ou qui ont fait l’objet de modifications de leurs structures ou de leurs dispositifs cultuels – pendant le règne de Charlemagne. Ces recherches privilégient ce qui a trait à la représentativité du pouvoir carolingien et à l’affirmation politico-religieuse de celui-ci à travers le medium du monumental. Il s’agit également de se focaliser sur le rôle et les impacts spirituels, politiques, économiques et sociaux de ces centres monastiques au sein des territoires sur lesquels ils sont implantés. Instruments au service de « la Renaissance carolingienne », ces derniers subirent des modifications structurelles et liturgiques (mutation des vocables, développement d’une liturgie stationnale et multiplication des autels ainsi que des édifices cultuels au sein d’un même complexe) et adoptèrent parfois des dimensions monumentales. Enfin, notre propos s’applique à mesurer l’implication de Charlemagne et de ses conseillers dans ces constructions ainsi que la part de nouveautés et d’emprunts qui constituèrent et caractérisèrent l’architecture monastique de son tempsOur subject deals with the study of the monastic complexes built – or whose construction started or has been modified – during the reign of Charlemagne. This research explores how these facilities could have been conceived as a mean to advertise and strengthen the political and religious power of the Carolingian emperor. The analysis is focused on the spiritual, political, economical and social impact of these monasteries upon the surrounding lands. As instruments of the “Carolingian Renaissance”, they have underwent some structural and liturgical modifications (renaming, development of the stational liturgy, addition of several altars and churches in one complex), and sometimes grew to monumental size. Ultimately, our intention is to assess the implication of Charlemagne and his councilors in these constructions, as well as to bring to light the architectural innovations or reuses that characterize the monastic architecture of Charlemagne’s reign
Die Dissertation behandelt die klösterlichen Gebäudekomplexe zur Zeit Karls des Großen, ob nun zu dieser Zeit erbaut oder in ihrer Struktur oder ihrem Gebrauch verändert und angepasst. Die Untersuchung betont den Repräsentationscharakter des Mediums Klosterbau für die karolingische Herrschaft und dessen politische und religiöse Umsetzung in den Bauten. Außerdem werden die Rolle und die Wirkmächtigkeit dieser monastischen Zentren in ihren jeweiligen räumlichen Kontexten auf der spirituellen, politischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Ebene untersucht. Sie dienten als Vehikel der „karolingischen Renaissance“ und erfuhren strukturelle und liturgische Veränderungen (Wechsel der Patrozinien, Entwicklung einer Stationsliturgie, Vervielfachung der Altäre und der Artefakte für den Gottesdienst innerhalb eines Baukomplexes). Mitunter erreichten sie monumentale Ausmaße. Die Arbeit möchte schließlich die Beteiligung Karls des Großen und seines Beraterkreises bei diesen Baumaßnahmen erfassen und den Anteil des Neuen und des Übernommenen ermessen, der die monastische Architektur dieser Zeit charakterisiert
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Taylor, Faye C. "Miracula, saints' cults and socio-political landscapes : Bobbio, Conques and post-Carolingian society." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12805/.
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Despite the centrality of monastic sources to debates about social and political transformation in post-Carolingian Europe, few studies have approached the political and economic status of monasteries and their saints' cults in this context, to which this thesis offers a comparative approach. Hagiography provides an interesting point of analysis with respect to the proposition of mutation féodale, and more importantly to that of the mutation documentaire and its relation to monastic 'reform', which Part I discusses. Parts II and III consider Bobbio and Conques, and their miracula (dedicated to San Colombano and Sainte Foy) within their respective socio-political environments, since the best of the recent scholarship concerning the millennial period has emphasized the specificity of regional experience. At Bobbio the closeness of the king physically and some continuity in royal practices between the tenth and eleventh centuries shaped monastic experience. It directed and sometimes restricted monastic discourse, which maintained an older tradition of general service to the kingdom, although innovations in relic usage helped monastic negotiations with the sovereign. At Conques, the waning of royal control created space for literary and cultic advances that served to bolster the monastery's position within local power structures. In this landscape older forms of public authority were purposefully minimized and hierarchy and landownership were negotiated between aristocrats, including Sainte Foy at the head of Conques. Whilst the categories of the 'feudal transformation' debate can offer a useful framework for the analysis of two very different monasteries and their local societies, the comparison demonstrates that placing monasteries at the centre of our debate is crucial to understanding the documents they produce, and therefore questions the potential that these have to shed light on wider societal change. Concerns over land and autonomy were central to both institutions, although these operated on different conceptual planes, because of different bases of landed patrimony dating back much further than the tenth century. Each monastery negotiated hierarchy and clientele through their miracula and according to local socio-political rules. Therefore, whilst related documentary and cultic transformations were inseparable from socio-political pressures, these were not necessarily pressures simply reacting to mutation féodale, but were formative processes in the direction and shape of social change.
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McCune, James Christopher. "An edition and study of select sermons from the Carolingian Sermonary of Salzburg." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-edition-and-study-of-select-sermons-from-the-carolingian-sermonary-of-salzburg(cd3d4152-f398-4f85-abe8-e8aaf6f62aca).html.
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Ward, Graeme Alexander. "The universal past and Carolingian present in the Histories of Frechulf of Lisieux." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708304.
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Pössel, Christina Ulrike. "Symbolic communication and the negotiation of power at Carolingian regnal assemblies, 814-840." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615905.
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Lösslein, Horst. "Possibilities of Royal Power in the Late Carolingian Age : Charles III "The Simple"." Thesis, Limoges, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIMO0012.
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La thèse est dédiée à analyser les possibilités du pouvoir royal à l’époque des derniers Carolingiens en étudiant le règne de Charles III le Simple (893/898-923) et en le comparant avec ceux de ses prédécesseurs depuis la mort de son grand-père Charles II le Chauve en 877, c’est ce que permet aussi l’identification des développements à moyen terme des structures politiques du monde Franc. Le pouvoir royal se devait de naître des interactions entre le roi et les nobles autour de lui. Selon les interprétations de la recherche récente, ces derniers sont considérés comme des partenaires du premier, qui participent dans le processus de sa prise de décision et qui fonctionnent comme des exécuteurs des décisions prises en consensus, transmettant ainsi le pouvoir royal dans les différentes parties du royaume. La question des marges de manœuvre du pouvoir royal est donc une question des relations entre le roi et les nobles qui l’entourent. En conséquence, l’étude de ces relations constitue l’axe central de cette étude. Les réseaux des nobles en contact avec les rois sont identifiés et l’influence des nobles individuels ainsi que des groupes est déterminée en analysant les diplômes royaux et en les mettant dans le contexte des sources narratives. Pendant les règnes de Louis II le Bègue (877-897) et ses fils Louis III (879-882) et Carloman II (882-884), jusqu'à celui de Charles III le Gros (884-888), l’existence d’un et plus tard de deux groupes qui dominaient la politique royale est révélée. Cette image change sous le dernier, qui promouvait certains nobles qui entretenaient des liens avec ces anciens groupes. Le manque de cohérence de cette nouvelle élite devient évident après la mort de Charles le Gros, quand des groupes rivaux soutinrent différents candidats pour le trône vacant. Cette fragmentation de l’élite du royaume continua pendant le règne d’Eudes (888-898) jusqu’aux premières années de Charles le Simple. Ce n’est qu’après la mort de certaines figures clés que l’intégration des nobles qui s’opposaient au nouvel ordre dans le cercle autour du nouveau roi devint possible. Pendant les prochaines décennies du règne de Charles, ce cercle fut modifié encore plusieurs fois, par l’addition d’un grand nombre de nobles après l’acquisition de la Lotharingie ainsi que par l’ascendance d’un nouveau groupe favorisé par Charles vers les dernières années 910s. Cette analyse constitue la base pour une évaluation des activités des rois concernant leurs pairs et les Vikings. Une collaboration étroite entre les rois est mise en lumière pour avoir d’une part stabilisé les relations entre ces rois et leurs nobles, et d’autre part, pour avoir limité aussi au même moment les marges de manœuvres des rois concernant leurs propres intérêts dans les royaumes voisins. Concernant les mesures prises contre les Vikings, des stratégies purement militaires pour sécuriser le royaume s’avèrent avoir été inefficaces. Ce n'était seulement que par des accords diplomatiques avec les Vikings, négociés et mis en œuvre avec le soutien des grands, que des succès sur le long terme pouvaient être obtenus. Quand pour la majeure partie de son règne Charles le Simple profitait du soutien des nobles, sa fin arriva quand même par leur rébellion en 922. Cette contradiction est résolue par l’introduction du concept sociologique de la confiance. Son importance dans les relations entre les rois et les nobles est déterminée par l’analyse de différentes situations de conflits. Il semble que la détérioration des liens entre Charles et les grands autour de lui était causée par la perception de certaines actions royales comme des violations des normes par les nobles ainsi que sa mauvaise grâce à employer une langue appropriée pour répondre à cette crise de confianceThe thesis aims to determine the possibilities of royal power in the late Carolingian age, analysing the reign of Charles III the Simple (893/898-923). His predecessors’ reigns up to the death of his grandfather Charles II the Bald (843-877) serve as basis for comparison, thus also allowing to identify mid-term developments in the political structures shaping the Frankish world toward the turn from the 9th to the 10th century. Royal power is understood to have derived from the interaction of the ruler with the nobles around him. Following the reading of modern scholarship, the latter are considered as partners of the former, participating in the royal decision-making process and at the same time acting as executors of these decisions, thus transmitting the royal power into the various parts of the realm. Hence, the question for the royal room for manoeuvre is a question of the relations between the ruler and the nobles around him. Accordingly, the analysis of these relations forms the core part of the study. Based on the royal diplomas, interpreted in the context of the narrative evidence, the noble networks in contact with the rulers are revealed and their influence examined. Thus, over the course of the reigns of Louis II the Stammerer (877-879) and his sons Louis III (879-882) and Carloman II (879-884) up until the rule of Charles III the Fat (884-888), the existence of first one, then two groups of nobles significantly influencing royal politics become visible. This image changes only under the latter, when individual nobles originating in the immediate vicinity of the older groups were promoted. The missing inner coherence of this new elite is revealed after the death of Charles the Fat, when rivalling parties formed, which supported different candidates for the vacant throne. This fragmentation of the leading nobility continued throughout Odo’s reign (888-898) until the first years of Charles the Simple’s rule. Only then, after the death of political key figures, the full integration of those nobles opposing the new king into the circle around him became possible. Over the course of the next decades this circle underwent a number of further modifications, most of all by the integration of numerous nobles after the addition of Lotharingia to Charles’ rule as well as the ascent of a new group of nobles promoted by the king in the late 910s. These analyses constitute the basis for an evaluation of the rulers’ activities in regard to their peers as well as the Vikings. A close cooperation between the rulers is revealed to have had a stabilizing effect on the relations between the rulers and the nobles. At the same time, however, these alliances also limited their room for manoeuvre when it came to pursuing their interests against their partners. Concerning the politics pursued against the Vikings, purely military measures to secure the realm remained rather ineffective. Longer lasting success could only be obtained by diplomatic agreements with the Northmen, negotiated and implemented with the support of the leading nobles of the realm. While for the most part of his reign Charles enjoyed the support of the leading nobles, his rule, nevertheless, remains under the shadow of their rebellion against him in 922. Outlining the importance of trust by analysing different conflict situations, this contrast is resolved by arguing that the deterioration of the relations between Charles and the nobles was caused by repeated actions of the king, which were perceived as violations of the existing norms and a failure to adjust his symbolic language to respond to this crisis
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Broome, Richard Christopher. "Approaches to community and otherness in the late Merovingian and early Carolingian periods." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8541/.
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The aim of this study is to examine how contemporary authors approached and understood the communal identity of the inhabitants of the regnum Francorum from the seventh to the early ninth century. In order to do this, the study takes in a wide variety of narrative sources – historical and hagiographical – and addresses issues of both ‘community’ and ‘otherness’, and above all the relationship between the two. To this end, the study explores three related discourses that emerged and developed in this period. The first of these discourse concerned the Franks themselves, especially the way authors imagined a Frankish community composed of a single gens which overcame inherent divisions within the regnum. The second discourse involved the relationship between Franks and non-Franks, and how authors relied on concepts of rebellion and paganism rather than ethnic identity to encourage a sense of exclusion. Crucially, we shall see this was a discourse that only really emerged in the eighth century. The third discourse is represented by a case-study of a specific people – the Frisians that charts how they went from being peripheral pagans at the beginning of the eighth century to being seen as part of the community by the middle of the ninth. Above all, though, we seek to highlight the variety between the different authors who participated in these discourses, emphasising that, while there were over-arching ideas in each discourse, each author interpreted these ideas in an individual way. This provides us with a much more ambivalent picture of community and otherness from the period than we might expect.
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Evans, Robert. "God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277428.
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The historians writing in the Carolingian Empire, with a few important exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the reigning dynasty. Alternatively, they have been explained by the legacy of late antique Christian historians, from which this language supposedly derived. This thesis aims to demonstrate that this language was a distinctive and innovative feature of the emerging tradition of Carolingian history writing and is best explained in religious terms. It argues that Carolingian historians reflected the emphasis on God’s agency found throughout contemporary culture and that they deliberately reshaped the Christian language bequeathed by their Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Frankish predecessors. It offers a text-by-text analysis of how God’s agency functioned within each major Carolingian history, to further show the versatility of this language over the period. Taken together, these texts suggest that Carolingian historians wanted to teach their audiences about God’s agency and its implications for their own beliefs, identities, and behaviour. As a result, these histories and their depictions of God’s agency can be seen as a distinctive contribution to Carolingian religious renewal. This thesis thus aims to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between religion, history, and culture in early medieval Europe.
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Mösch, Sophia Cornelia. "Augustine of Hippo and the art of ruling in the Carolingian imperial period." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/augustine-of-hippo-and-the-art-of-ruling-in-the-carolingian-imperial-period(e0cb2f90-b0ac-43b6-a3fe-bf4bb298c74a).html.
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This thesis investigates how the political thought of Augustine of Hippo was understood and modified by Carolingian-era writers to serve their own distinctive purposes. The research concentrates on Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Reims, advisers to Charlemagne and Charles the Bald, respectively. The analysis focuses on Alcuin's and Hincmar's discussions of empire, rulership and the moral conduct of political agents, in the course of which both made extensive use of Augustine's De civitate Dei, though each came away with a substantially different understanding of its message. By applying a philological-historical approach, this thesis offers a deeper reading that views their texts as political discourses defined by content and language; it also explains why Augustine, despite being understood in such different ways, remained an author that Carolingian writers found useful to think with. Methodological problems are outlined in the Introduction. Chapter One contains an analysis of selected concepts of Augustinian thought, chosen both for their prominence in the De civitate Dei and relevance to the Carolingian material. Chapter Two explores the range of Augustinian influences in Alcuin's Epistolae, with emphasis on political thought. Chapter Three studies the impact of Augustine on Hincmar's Epistolae, Expositiones ad Carolum Regem and De regis persona, with a focus on political ethics. The Conclusion contextualises the findings on Augustinian influence from the previous chapters and attempts to show more clearly why Alcuin's and Hincmar's versions of Augustinian thought are so different. In particular, it considers the differences between Augustine's, Alcuin's and Hincmar's understandings of 'church' and 'state' and the distinctive ways in which each of them interpreted the relationship between religion and political power. A comparison of Alcuin's and Hincmar's uses of Augustine sheds light on the differences between Charlemagne's reign and that of his grandson.
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Polci, Barbara. "Palace and hall in the Mediterranean basin between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327131.
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Sagasser, Amélie. "Juden und Judentum in der Karolingerzeit." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0047.
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A rebours d’une vision de l’Empire carolingien défini comme une entité homogène, la société carolingienne se caractérisait par sa diversité ethnique, culturelle et religieuse. En plus de faire face à l’altérité à l’intérieur de l’Empire, les souverains carolingiens étaient confrontés à populations très diverses en périphérie de celui-ci : à l’image des Juifs, des Musulmans ou des Espagnols. Cette thèse s’intéresse plus précisément aux Juifs du territoire carolingien, sous le règne des rois et empereurs carolingien (entre 750 - 900). Cet objet de recherche, souvent abordé, n’a jamais fait l’objet d’un traitement systématique. A partir d’un corpus de sources normatives, ce travail analyse comment les autorités séculières et ecclésiales traitaient des Juifs ou du Judaïsme dans leurs législations. Dans un premier temps, il opère une analyse systématique de chaque source, afin de dresser un tableau de toutes les facettes des traitements des autorités chrétiennes (séculières et ecclésiales) à l’égard des Juifs et du Judaïsme. Dans un deuxième temps, il s’attachera à définir la place de cette minorité juive au sein d’une société carolingienne qui se veut chrétienne. En confrontant l’idée du Juif réel avec celle Juif ou du Judaïsme imaginaire ou imaginé et celle du « juif herméneutique », concept introduit par Jeremy Cohen donnant aux Juifs dans les textes théologiques un rôle de figure ajustable à l’argumentation, cette thèse propose les concepts de « Juif historique » et de « Juif politisé » comme clé de lecture de la place des Juifs ou du Judaïsme dans les sources législativesContrary to the belief that the Carolingian Empire was a homogenous entity, Carolingian society was in fact characterized by its diverse ethnic groups, culture, and religion. As well as facing otherness within Europe, Carolingian rulers confronted very diverse populations along its empire’s boundaries: such as the Jews, Muslims, and Spaniards. This thesis concentrates particularly on the Jewish population at the time of the Carolingian Empire, between 750 and 900 AD. There are many articles referring to the Jewish population during that time period, however there is no focused systematic or methodological research on this minority population. Using a corpus of normative sources, this work presents an analysis on how secular and ecclesiastical authorities applied their legislation to the treatment of Jews or Judaism. In the first part, each source undergoes systematic analysis, thus leading to the compilation of a table that outlines the Christian authorities, (secular or ecclesiastic), guidelines on how to treat Jews and Judaism. The second part has the mission to define the place that this Jewish minority had within this Christian Carolingian society. It confronts the notions of the “real” Jew against the “imagined” or “imaginary” Jew or Judaism at that time period, as well as presenting Jeremy Cohen’s concept of the “hermeneutical Jew” which gave the Christian authorities the ability to adapt or change the Jewish image according to their other concerns. This thesis introduces the concepts of the “historic Jew” and that of the “political Jew” as the key to the place the Jews or Judaism had in legislative sources
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Somfai, Anna. "The transmission and reception of Plato's 'Timaeus' and Calcidius's 'Commentary' during the Carolingian Renaissance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251664.
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Carlson, Laura M. "The politics of interpretation : language, philosophy, and authority in the Carolingian Empire (775-820)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e2574f8-b264-4e48-8390-fbec34411651.
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Is language a tool of empire or is empire a tool of language? This thesis examines the cultivation of Carolingian hegemony on a pan-European scale; one defined by a renewed interest in the study of language and its relationship to Carolingian eagerness for moral and spiritual authority. Intended to complement previous work on Carolingian cultural politics, this thesis reiterates the emergence of active philosophical speculation during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Prior research has ignored the centrality of linguistic hermeneutics in the Carolingian literate programme. This thesis addresses this lacuna, demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between spirituality, language, and politics within the Carolingian world. The work appropriates prior investigations into the connection of semiotics and Christian philosophy and proposes the development of a renewed interest into ontology and epistemology by Carolingian scholars, notably Alcuin of York and Theodulf of Orléans. The correlation between linguistic philosophy and spiritual authority is confirmed by the 794 Synod of Frankfurt, at which accusations towards both the Adoptionist movement of northern Spain and the repeal of Byzantine Iconoclasm were based on the dangers of linguistic misinterpretation. The thesis also explores the manifestation of this emergent philosophy of language within the manuscript evidence, witnessed by the biblical pandects produced by Alcuin and Theodulf. Desire for the emendation of texts, not to mention the formation of a uniform script (Caroline Minuscule), abetted the larger goal of both infusing a text with authority (both secular and divine) and allowing for broader spiritual and intellectual understanding of a text. Increasing engagement with classical philosophy and rhetoric, the nature of Carolingian biblical revision, and the cultural politics as seen at the Synod of Frankfurt depict the primacy of language to the Carolingians, not only as a tool of imperialism, but the axis of their intellectual and spiritual world.
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Innes, Matthew James. "Social and political processes in the Carolingian middle Rhine valley, c.750 -c.875." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272988.
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Kabala, Jakub Jan. "Imagining Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish, Roman and Byzantine Concepts of Space and Power in the Slavlands, c. 750-900." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13068538.
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This dissertation offers a comparative cross-cultural investigation into the imagination of space in three sibling centers of civilization driving the formative expansion of Europe in the early Middle Ages: the Frankish court, the papacy and Byzantium. At its center stands the Slavic world of eastern Europe, which in the eighth and ninth centuries attracted the expansive energies of a young Carolingian empire, a newly aggressive papacy and a resurgent Byzantine Empire. A close reading of Latin, Greek and Church Slavonic records reveals three models of imagining space, and three ways of conceptualizing power.
Frankish authors at the courts of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious represented areas of the world under Frankish power as territories, and areas beyond Frankish reach as ethnicities. Their "imagined territoriality" of power included the Slavic world at those times and in those places when and where Frankish imperial reach was possible. At the same time, and especially in moments of crisis, court authors represented Frankish space as a heterogeneous network of nodes of landed wealth. This complex Frankish imagination of space was ultimately shaped by an exercise of power that was fundamentally economic in nature. Meanwhile, Roman authors at the ninth-century papal court imagined the spaces of eastern Europe very differently as homogeneous areas clearly delimited by strong borders. They reveal a geopolitical brand of territoriality as defined by geographers and historians of the modern nation-state. This papal vision of space was influenced by a power that was jurisdictional in nature. Finally, and in stark contrast, Byzantine authors imagined a non-territorial space of peoples in Eastern Europe: instead of drawing border lines to distinguish territories, they drew lines of faith to distinguish peoples. In the Church Slavonic sources, the most important principle ordering this ethnographic space was jezykb, a term meaning both "language" and "people," emphasizing both a Byzantine imperial ideology that was fundamentally ethnographic in nature as well as an exercise of power grounded in written cultures and even alphabets.
This dissertation both exposes the critical role played by eastern European Slavlands in the origins of European conceptions of territoriality and demonstrates the power of cross-cultural investigations to deepen our understanding of the medieval past.History
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Timmermann, Joshua L. "Beati patres : uses of Augustine and Gregory the Great at Carolingian church councils, 816-836." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52682.
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The Carolingian renovatio of the earlier ninth century was marked by an intensified interest in “the teachings of the ancient fathers.” Where the Church Fathers had long served as indispensable sources for biblical interpretation and exegesis, the reform agenda of the Church councils between 816 and 836 saw these Fathers employed increasingly as authoritative guides to the ordines, the orders of Christian society. Chief among these patristic authorities was Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose influence in the early Middle Ages has often been cast as ubiquitous and all-encompassing by modern historians.
To be sure, Augustine was an important source for the Carolingian reforms. Yet, rather than presuming that his nominal impact was all-pervasive in ninth-century political and ecclesiastical discourses, I shall endeavor to show both the great utility and the discursive limits of Augustine’s name, and the authority tied to it, within the conciliar texts of this period. Despite the purportedly thorough Augustinianism of the Carolingian reforms, “Augustine” is often present via later, patristic mediators, the most significant and formidable among them being Pope Gregory the Great (540–604). Gregory was arguably the ultimate Augustinian mediator for the Carolingians (and beyond), but his great innovation was the development of an adaptable language of hierarchical, spiritual, and political authority, a mode of admonition particularly well-suited to the aims of the Carolingian reform program.Arts, Faculty of
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Carroll, Christopher John. "The archbishops and church provinces of Mainz and Cologne during the Carolingian Period, 751-911." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272506.
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Thornborough, Joanna. "The 'Passiones' of St. Kilian : cult, politics and society in the Carolingian and Ottonian worlds." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6953.
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The subject of this thesis is the relationship between hagiography and cult in the early medieval west taken through the example of the Passiones of St. Kilian of Würzburg († 689) in the period from circa 700 to circa 1000 AD. Through examining a cult which developed east of the Rhine, this thesis will assess these developments taking place in a region without a strong Christian-Roman history. Thuringia produced new saints and cults in this period, yet they all operated within the overarching framework of the well-established religious phenomenon of saints' cults. In its approach, this thesis builds upon the insights of Ian Wood, James Palmer and others, in which saints' Lives are viewed as ‘textual arguments' which could operate beyond cultic contexts. This is combined with the cultural context approaches advocated in geographically specific studies by the likes of Julia Smith, Thomas Head and Raymond Van Dam. By paying particular attention to the impact of updating saints' Lives this thesis provides an in depth comparison of the relatively overlooked two earliest passiones of St. Kilian and their place in the history of the Würzburg community. It therefore addresses the nature and function of hagiography and its relationship with the institutional memory and identity of that community. The spread of cult through texts and relics is compared with the distribution of the hagiography in order to form a picture of the relationship between these different facets of cult. The question of the way in which these passiones engaged with their wider political and religious contexts is also addressed in order to demonstrate the functions of hagiography outwith an immediate cultic context.
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Westwell, Arthur Robert. "The dissemination and reception of the ordines romani in the Carolingian Church, c.750-900." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275972.
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The ordines romani are products of a ninth-century attempt to correct liturgy across Europe. Hitherto, scholarship has almost exclusively focused on them as sources for the practices of the city of Rome, narrowly defined, disregarding how they were received creatively and reinterpreted in a set of fascinating manuscripts which do not easily fit into traditional categories. This thesis re-envisages these special texts as valuable testimonies of intent and principle. In the past few decades of scholarship, it has been made very clear that what occurred under the Carolingians in the liturgy did not involve the imposition of the Roman rite from above. What was ‘Roman’ and ‘correct’ was decided by individuals, each in their own case, and they created and edited texts for what they needed. These individuals were part of intensive networks of exchange, and, broadly, they agreed on what they were attempting to accomplish. Nevertheless, depending on their own formation, and the atmosphere of their diocese, the same ritual content could be interpreted in numerous different ways. Ultimately, this thesis aims to demonstrate the usefulness of applying new techniques of assessing liturgical manuscripts, as total witnesses whose texts interpret each other, to the ninth century. Each of the ordo romanus manuscripts of the ninth century preserves a fascinating glimpse into the process of working out what ‘correct’ liturgy looked like, by people intensely invested in that proposition. Through them, we can reconceptualise the Carolingian achievement in liturgy, more sympathetically to the great diversity on the ground, but also to the broader goals which united all of these celebrants and intellectuals. In these texts, we can see how the Carolingians really understood the Roman practices they revered, and how they brought this special holiness to their own cathedrals and monasteries through richly creative re-enactment, not thoughtless replication.
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Perry, Megan R. "ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD: THEORIES OF NOBLESSE OBLIGE IN CAROLINGIAN FRANCIA." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/54.
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This thesis argues that conceptions of commerce in the Carolingian era were intertwined with the discourse of ethics, and that concepts of the Carolingian ‘economy’ may be profitably illuminated by consideration of pre-modern ethical and social categories. I explore a pre-modern pattern of personhood that framed persons in terms of political rôles, and exchange in terms of the interactions of those rôles. In moral letters addressed to counts and kings, ethical counsel about greed for each lay rôle was grounded in particular geographic spaces and historical moments, creating a rich valence of specific meanings for greed and charity. I examine letters in which Paulinus of Aquileia, Alcuin of York, Jonas of Orléans, and Dhuoda of Uzés treated the greed of counts, and those in which Smaragdus of St. Mihiel, Sedulius Scottus, and Hincmar of Rheims treated that of kings. In each letter’s definition of greed are found interactions with specific elements exchanged, and correlative meanings of greed far from limited to the ‘love of silver’, but also not wholly vague and spiritualized. Greed and largesse constituted the language in which Carolingian writers discussed economic exploitation, tyranny, plunder, investment, credit, and noblesse oblige.
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Romig, Andrew J. "Love in the material world : caritas and the changing face of Carolingian lay discipleship, 8th--10th century." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318357.
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Newfield, Timothy. "The contours of disease and hunger in Carolingian and early Ottonian Europe (c. 750 - c. 950)." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103644.
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This thesis is the first systematic examination of the textual and material evidence for diseaseand hunger in Carolingian and early Ottonian Europe, c.750 to c.950 CE. It draws upon medieval textual records including annals, capitularies, chronicles, concilia, correspondence, histories, gesta, poetry, polyptychs, secular biographies, and vitae, as well as numerous modern archaeological, palaeobotanical, palaeoclimatic, palaeomicrobiological and palaeopathological reports in order to comment on epidemics, epizootics, food shortages and the baseline or current of non-pestilential disease and chronic hunger underlying them. It first surveys the historical and scientific scholarship on these phenomena and the methodologies intrinsic to their study. The evidence for non-pestilential and chronic hunger is then addressed, before pestilences and food shortages are identified in time and space. We can discern roughly thirty-two peacetime epidemics, ten epizootics, ten famines and twelve lesser shortages. A short investigation of the impact of, and response to, disease and hunger in Carolingian and early Ottonian Europe is presented in conclusion. The thesis demonstrates that disease and hunger, in both endemic and epidemic forms, were common realities for mid eighth- through mid tenth-century continental European populations, and argues that epidemics, epizootics and subsistence crises had major, short-lived but possibly cumulative, repercussions for Carolingian and early Ottonian demographic and, consequently, economic growth, in addition to intensifying the impact of the silent toll of the baseline of non-pestilential disease and chronic hunger. The textual evidence addressed in the thesis is presented in Latin and English in three appendices.Cette thèse est le premier examen systématique des sources textuelles et matérielles concernant la maladie et la faim en Europe carolingienne et ottonienne, entre le milieu du VIIIe et le milieu du Xe siècle. Elle s'appuie sur des sources textuelles, comprenant des annales, capitulaires, chroniques, actes de conciles, la littérature épistolaire, les oeuvres historiques, les gesta, la poésie, les polyptyques, biographies laïques et vies de saints, ainsi que de nombreux rapports archéologiques, paléobotaniques, paléoclimatiques, paléomicrobiologiques et paléopathologiques récents afin d'expliquer les épidémies, épizooties et pénuries alimentaires, de même que le problème fondamental de la faim, qu'elle soit la conséquence de maladies non-pestilentielles ou de maladies chroniques sous-jacentes. Elle passe en revue l'historiographie et l'état des recherches scientifiques sur ces phénomènes ainsi que la méthodologie qui sert à leur étude. Les indications concernant la faim non pestilentielle et chronique sont alors analysées, ensuite celles concernant les pestes et les pénuries alimentaires, qui sont identifiées dans le temps et l'espace. Nous pouvons discerner assez bien trente-deux épidémies en temps de paix, une dizaine d'épizooties, dix famines et dix à douze pénuries moindres. La conclusion présente une enquête bref sur l'impact de la maladie et de la faim et la réponse qu'elles ont suscitées en Europe carolingienne et ottonienne. La thèse démontre que la maladie et la faim, dans ses formes endémique autant qu'épidémique, étaient des réalités courantes pour les populations européennes continentales entre le milieu du VIIIe et le milieu du Xe siècle et défend l'idée selon laquelle les épidémies, les épizooties et les crises de subsistance ont été majeures, de courte durée mais dont l'effet a pu être cumulatif. Leurs répercussions sur la démographie de l'Europe carolingienne et ottonienne et, par conséquent, sur la croissance économique ont intensifié l'impact déjà dévastateur des maladies non pestilentielles et de la faim chronique. Les indications tirées des sources écrites utilisées dans la thèse sont présentées en latin et en traduction anglaise dans trois annexes.
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Pomeroy, Hilary Susan. "An edition and study of the secular ballads in the Sephardic ballad notebook of Halia Isaac Cohen." Thesis, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368887.
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Trommer, Marie. "Les dominés dans l'ecclesia carolingienne." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAG003.
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Le salut des dominés est un enjeu majeur pour l’ecclesia carolingienne, conçue comme l’ensemble des sujets chrétiens du souverain. Toutefois, malgré le souci des pauvres et l’égalité proclamés par l’Église, les hiérarchies temporelles persistent, et les dominés sont l’objet de préjugés de la part de l’aristocratie, dont les prélats font souvent partie. Le trouble à l’ordre social, institué par Dieu lui-même, représente un grave péché, et les dominés sont priés d’obéir et de se soumettre à leur condition. Les paroisses sont instituées comme cadre de salut mais surtout moyen de contrôle des fidèles, par la dîme, la pénitence ou encore l’excommunication, et l’Église s’impose comme médiatrice entre Dieu et les hommes. Pourtant, au niveau local, c’est plutôt un consensus qui s’établit entre le prêtre et les fidèles pour asseoir le christianisme. L’Église tolère une certaine hétérodoxie : elle inclut les fidèles par la correction et la pénitence plutôt que d’exclure les pécheurs. C’est dans ce cadre que se fait la christianisation, processus complexe mêlant de nombreux acteurs : élites laïques et ecclésiastiques, prêtres de paroisse, mais aussi simples fidèlesThe salvation of the lower classes is a major issue for the Carolingian ecclesia, considered as the whole of the Christian subjects of the sovereign. Nevertheless, despite the concern of the poor and the proclamation of equality by the Church, the temporal hierarchies persist, and the lower classes are the object of prejudices in the aristocracy’s and prelate’s view. The disturbance of the social order, established by God himself, is considered a serious sin. Therefore, the lower classes have to obey their masters and their social status. Parishes are introduced as the frame of salvation, but they also represent a way of controlling the faithful through tithes, penance or excommunication. Thus, the Church imposes itself as an intermediary between God and the humanity. However, on a local scale, the priest and the faithful establish a consensus to strengthen Christianism. The Church tolerates a certain heterodoxy : it includes the faithful through correction and penance instead of excluding the sinners. The Christianization is a complex process which involves many actors : lay and ecclesiastic elite, parish priests, but also the faithful, including the lower classes
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Sobreira, Victor Borges. "O modelo do grande domínio: os polípticos de Saint-German-des-Prés e de Saint-Bertin. História e historiografia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-27092012-112232/.
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O objetivo desse trabalho foi compreender como se deu a construção do conceito de Grande Domínio (Grundherrschaft) e discutir os problemas e os limites do emprego desse modelo para o estudo do Período Carolíngio. Com esse intuito, analisamos, comparativamente, dois documentos: o Políptico de Saint-Germain-des-Prés e o Políptico de Saint-Bertin. Surgido no início do século XIX, esse conceito foi desenvolvido pelo historiador alemão Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg, algumas décadas depois. Inama-Sternegg tinha como objetivo explicar a evolução econômica alemã, desde a queda do Império Romano até a formação do Feudalismo. Apesar da pretensão de uma explicação evolutiva ter sido abandonada, esse modelo continuou a ser utilizado, com as mais diferentes abordagens, dentre os estudos sobre a história do ocidente europeu. Mesmo que diversos documentos tenham sido estudados a partir desse conceito, um assume maior relevância: o Políptico de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, seja pela edição feita em 1836, pela sua extensão com mais de 130 fólios ou pelos detalhes que suas informações trazem, como a quantidade e os nomes dos filhos de cada casal do domínio. A despeito da utilização de outras fontes, o estudo do Grande Domínio permaneceu por mais de um século atrelado à fonte de Paris. Apenas na segunda metade do século XX, com a reedição e a edição crítica de diversos Polípticos, como o de Saint-Bertin, que a relação entre o Grande Domínio e os Polípticos começou a ser debatida com profundidade.The aim of this project is to comprehend how the concept of Manorial System (Grundherrschaft) was built and to debate the problems and limits of the use of this model in the study of the Carolingian period. To reach our objectives, two documents will be comparatively analyzed: the Polyptychs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Polyptychs of Saint-Bertin. This concept appeared at the beginning of the XIXth century and it was developed decades later by Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg. This researcher wanted to explain the evolution of the Germany economy from the fall of Rome to the beginning of the feudalism. Although the pretension of an evolutional explanation was abandoned, the concept is still being used in different historical approaches. In spite of researchers having adopted this concept to study several documents, one among them was more significant: the Polyptych of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. This is due not only to its early edition of 1836, its length (more than 130 folios) but also to its detailed information about the family of the peasants, such as names and number of children from each couple. Despite the use of other sources, the study of the Manorial System kept linked to the document from Paris. It is only in the second half of the XXth century, with the re-edition and critical edition of various Polyptychs, such as the Saint-Bertin, that the relation between the Polyptychs and the Manorial System started to be deeply debated.