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The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe Simon Maclean
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by St Andrews Research Repository 1 The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe Simon MacLean On 28 January 893, a 13-year-old known to posterity as Charles III “the Simple” (or “Straightforward”) was crowned king of West Francia at the great cathedral of Rheims. Charles was a great-great-grandson in the direct male line of the emperor Charlemagne andclung tightly to his Carolingian heritage throughout his life.1 Indeed, 28 January was chosen for the coronation precisely because it was the anniversary of his great ancestor’s death in 814. However, the coronation, for all its pointed symbolism, was not a simple continuation of his family’s long-standing hegemony – it was an act of rebellion. Five years earlier, in 888, a dearth of viable successors to the emperor Charles the Fat had shattered the monopoly on royal authority which the Carolingian dynasty had claimed since 751. The succession crisis resolved itself via the appearance in all of the Frankish kingdoms of kings from outside the family’s male line (and in some cases from outside the family altogether) including, in West Francia, the erstwhile count of Paris Odo – and while Charles’s family would again hold royal status for a substantial part of the tenth century, in the long run it was Odo’s, the Capetians, which prevailed. Charles the Simple, then, was a man displaced in time: a Carolingian marooned in a post-Carolingian political world where belonging to the dynasty of Charlemagne had lost its hegemonic significance , however loudly it was proclaimed.2 His dilemma represents a peculiar syndrome of the tenth century and stands as a symbol for the theme of this article, which asks how members of the tenth-century ruling class perceived their relationship to the Carolingian past. -
Prudentius of Troyes (D. 861) and the Reception of the Patristic Tradition in the Carolingian Era
Prudentius of Troyes (d. 861) and the Reception of the Patristic Tradition in the Carolingian Era by Jared G. Wielfaert A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History University of Toronto © Copyright by Jared Wielfaert 2015 Prudentius of Troyes (d. 861) and the Reception of the Patristic Tradition in the Carolingian Era Jared Gardner Wielfaert Doctor of Philosophy Department of History University of Toronto 2015 ABSTRACT: This study concerns Prudentius, bishop of Troyes (861), a court scholar, historian, and pastor of the ninth century, whose extant corpus, though relatively extensive, remains unstudied. Born in Spain in the decades following the Frankish conquest of the Spanish march, Prudentius had been recruited to the Carolingian court under Louis the Pious, where he served as a palace chaplain for a twenty year period, before his eventual elevation to the see of Troyes in the 840s. With a career that moved from the frontier to the imperial court center, then back to the local world of the diocese and environment of cathedral libraries, sacred shrines, and local care of souls, the biography of Prudentius provides a frame for synthesis of several prevailing currents in the cultural history of the Carolingian era. His personal connections make him a rare link between the generation of the architects of the Carolingian reforms (Theodulf and Alcuin) and their students (Rabanus Maurus, Prudentius himself) and the great period of fruition of which the work of John Scottus Eriugena is the most widely recogized example. His involvement in the mid-century theological controversy over the doctrine of predestination illustrates the techniques and methods, as well as the concerns and preoccupations, of Carolingian era scholars engaged in the consolidation and interpretation of patristic opinion, particularly, that of Augustine. -
The Heliand's Massacre of the Innocents: Was the Heliand Written by a Woman?
Trinity University Digital Commons @ Trinity Undergraduate Student Research Awards Information Literacy Committee 2019 The Heliand's Massacre of the Innocents: Was the Heliand Written by a Woman? Isaak Loewen Trinity University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/infolit_usra Repository Citation Loewen, Isaak, "The Heliand's Massacre of the Innocents: Was the Heliand Written by a Woman?" (2019). Undergraduate Student Research Awards. 54. https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/infolit_usra/54 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Information Literacy Committee at Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Student Research Awards by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Isaak Loewen 0810122 Coates Library Research Thing Prize 2020 The Heliand’s Massacre of the Innocents: Was the Heliand Written by a Woman? The Old Saxon epic poem, the Heliand, was composed c. 850 CE at the Benadictine Abbey of Fulda in Saxony. The Heliand is a gospel harmony detailing the life of Christ, in which the narrative was adapted for a Saxon audience to include elements of their history and culture (Murphy 2004, 263). Because the poem is so intimately tied to Saxon life, it is unsurprising that it contains graphic violence of soldiers murdering innocents, as a reference to the brutal Frankish conquest of Saxony in the eighth and ninth centuries, which decimated their territory and resulted in mass death. The violence of war is especially present in the depiction of the Massacre of the Innocents from the Gospel of Matthew. -
Gender and Moral Authority in the Carolingian Age (2016)
NOTICE: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. One specified condition is that the reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses a reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. RESTRICTIONS: This student work may be read, quoted from, cited, for purposes of research. It may not be published in full except by permission of the author. 1 INTRODUCTION The common people call the place, both the spring and the village, Fontenoy, Where that massacre and bloody downfall of the Franks [took place]: The fields tremble, the woods tremble, the very swamp trembles… Let not that accursed day be counted in the calendar of the year, Rather let it be erased from all memory, May the sun’s rays never fall there, may no dawn ever come to [end its endless] twilight. -Englebert, 8411 The Battle of Fontenoy in 841 left the Carolingian Empire devastated. It was the only battle of a three-year civil war that left too many dead and the survivors, shattered. During this period of unrest, from 840-843, an aristocratic woman, Dhuoda, endured the most difficult years of her life. The loyalty of her absentee husband, Bernard of Septimania, was being questioned by one of the three kings fighting for an upper-hand in this bloody civil war. To ensure his loyalty, his and Dhuoda’s 14-year old son, William, was to be sent to King Charles the Bald as a hostage. -
The Conquest and Forced Conversion of the Saxons Under Charlemagne
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2013 Res Voluntaria, Non Necessaria: The onquesC t and Forced Conversion of the Saxons under Charlemagne Alexander Scott esD sens Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Dessens, Alexander Scott, "Res Voluntaria, Non Necessaria: The onqueC st and Forced Conversion of the Saxons under Charlemagne" (2013). LSU Master's Theses. 1275. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1275 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Master's Theses by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. RES VOLUNTARIA, NON NECESSARIA: THE CONQUEST AND FORCED CONVERSION OF THE SAXONS UNDER CHARLEMAGNE A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in The Department of History by Alexander Dessens B.A., Louisiana State University, 2010 December 2013 © Copyright 2013 Alexander Dessens All rights reserved ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS. iv ABSTRACT. v INTRODUCTION: A THING OF WILL?. 1 THE SAXON WARS AND MISSIONARY IDEOLOGY IN MODERN SCHOLARSHIP. 9 THE OPENING PHASE OF THE SAXON WARS: CAMPAIGNS AND CONVERSIONS, 772-781. 28 DESPERATE MEASURES: REBELLION, FRUSTRATION, AND THE ‘TERROR CAPITULARY,’ 782-785 . 42 THE END OF THE CONFLICT, 793-804. -
Changing Status of the Carolingian Rulers: Reflections on Changing the on of Carolingianreflections Titulature Rulers: from and Status Legitimacy
EGE BARIġ KANIK BARIġ KANIK EGE CHANGING STATUS OF THE CAROLINGIAN RULERS: REFLECTIONS ON CHANGING STATUS OF THE CAROLINGIAN RULERS: REFLECTIONS ON TITULATURE AND LEGITIMACY, STATUS AND RULERS:FROM TITULATURE CAROLINGIAN REFLECTIONS OF ON THE CHANGING TITULATURE AND LEGITIMACY, FROM EARLY PERIODS TO THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE A Master‟s Thesis EARLY PERIODS TO THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE OF PERIODS TO THEEARLY DEATH by EGE BARIġ KANIK Department of History Ġhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University Ankara July 2021 Bilkent Universit y 2021 To my family CHANGING STATUS OF THE CAROLINGIAN RULERS: REFLECTIONS ON TITULATURE AND LEGITIMACY, FROM EARLY PERIODS TO THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE The Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences of Ġhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University by EGE BARIġ KANIK In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ĠHSAN DOĞRAMACI BĠLKENT UNIVERSITY ANKARA JULY 2021 I certify that I have read this thesis and have found that it is fully adequate, in scope and in quality, asa thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in History. Assist. Prof. Dr. David E. Thomton Supervisor I certify that I have read this thesis and have found that it is fully adequate, in scope and in quality, as a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in History. Assist. Prof. Dr. Paul Latimer Examining Committee Member I certify that I have read this thesis and have found that it is fully adequate, in scopefand in quality, asa thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in History. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selim Tezcan Examining Committee Member Approval ofthe Graduate School ofEconomics and Social Sciences Prof. -
3. Texte, Identitäten Im Frankenreich 150 RUDOLF SCHIEFFER
3. Texte, Identitäten im Frankenreich 150 RUDOLF SCHIEFFER KARL DER GROSSE, EIRENE UND DER URSPRUNG DES WESTLICHEN KAISERTUMS Die Frage nach den Ursprüngen, die den roten Faden dieses Bandes ausmacht, stellt sich auch beim westlichen Kaisertum, das am Weihnachtstag 800 ins Leben trat und durch das Jubiläumsjahr 2000 erst jüngst wieder besondere Beachtung gefunden hat.1 Trotz vieler gelehrter Bemühungen in älterer und neuerer Zeit besteht durchaus keine hinreichende Klarheit darüber, woher der Gedanke kam und was den konkreten Anlaß abgab, eine solche feierliche Rangerhöhung des Frankenkönigs durch den Papst zu vollziehen, deren langfristige historische Tragweite ohnehin den Beteiligten schwer- lich vor Augen gestanden haben wird. Die vermißte Klarheit zu schaffen, traue auch ich mir in diesem kurzen Beitrag nicht zu; vielmehr habe ich nichts weiter anzubieten als einige Randbemerkungen zu den teilweise verblüffenden Wendungen, die die For- schungsdiskussion in den letzten Jahren genommen hat. Wer nach dem Ursprung des karolingischen Kaisertums sucht, kommt kaum umhin, zunächst Karl den Großen (samt seiner gelehrten Umgebung) in den Blick zu fassen, stand er doch im Mittelpunkt der Feierlichkeiten in St. Peter und gewann dabei einen Zuwachs an Respekt und Selbstvertrauen, den er in den folgenden Jahren spürbar zur Geltung gebracht hat.2 Ein unmißverständliches Zeugnis für seinen Drang nach dem Kaisertum aus der Zeit vor 800 fehlt allerdings, und so wirkt seit jeher die Suggestion, die von Einhards Behandlung des Vorgangs ausgeht. Der Biograph, -
Borna's Polity Attested by Frankish Sources in the Territory of the Former
International Symposium The Treaty of Aachen, AD 812: The Origins and Impact on the Region between the Adriatic, Central, and Southeastern Europe Abstracts University of Zadar Zadar, September 27–29, 2012 Abstracts of the International Symposium The Treaty of Aachen, AD 812: The Origins and Impact on the Region between the Adriatic, Central, and Southeastern Europe Zadar, September 27–29, 2012 University of Zadar Department of History 2012 Frankish ducatus or Slavic Chiefdom? The Character of Borna’s Polity in Early-Ninth-Century Dalmatia Denis Alimov Borna’s polity, attested by Frankish sources on the territory of the former Roman province of Dalmatia in the first quarter of the 9th century, is traditionally considered to be the cradle of early medieval Croatian state. Meanwhile, the exact character of this polity and the way it was linked with the Croats as an early medieval gens remain obscure in many respects. I argue that Borna’s ducatus consisted of two political entities, the Croat polity proper, with its heartland in the region of Knin, and a small chiefdom of the Guduscani in the region of Gacka. Borna was the chief of the Croats, a group of people that gradually developed into an ethnic unit under the leadership of a Christianized military elite.. For all that, the process of the stabilization of the Croats’ group identity originally connected with the social structures of Pax Avarica and its transformation into what can be called gentile identity was very durable, the rate of the process being considerably slower than the formation of supralocal political organization in Dalmatia. -
Diplomarbeit
Diplomarbeit Titel der Diplomarbeit „Die Franken und der Norden. Über die Schwierigkeit der Interpretation von frühmittelalterlichen Quellen zur Geschichte Dänemarks“ Verfasserin Sandra Polzer angestrebter akademischer Grad Magistra der Philosophie (Mag. phil.) Wien, im August 2008 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt: A 312 394 Studienrichtung lt. Studienblatt: Geschichte (Stzw) Betreuer: Doz. Klaus Lohrmann Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Danksagung......................................................................................................................................... 4 2. Einleitung ............................................................................................................................................ 5 3. Ad Fontes – Die Herausforderungen im Umgang mit frühmittelalterlichen Texten ......................... 13 3.1. Die Begrifflichkeit in den fränkischen Quellen und das Problem der „doppelten Theoriebildung“ ....................................................................................................................... 13 3.2. Die Bedeutung von Schriftlichkeit im Frühmittelalter............................................................... 18 3.3. Ungeschriebene Gesetze – Die Auswirkungen von Oralität auf die Wahrnehmung von sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen ........................................................................................... 22 3.4. Die Grundregeln des politischen Systems der Franken ............................................................. 32 4. Die Auseinandersetzung -
Models of Roman Leadership in the Court of Charlemagne Katarina Brewbaker
Mānoa Horizons Volume 1 | Issue 1 Article 20 10-21-2016 Old Wine, New Skins: Models of Roman Leadership in the Court of Charlemagne Katarina Brewbaker Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/horizons Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Brewbaker, Katarina (2016) "Old Wine, New Skins: Models of Roman Leadership in the Court of Charlemagne," Mānoa Horizons: Vol. 1 : Iss. 1 , Article 20. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/horizons/vol1/iss1/20 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mānoa Horizons by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This article comes from my larger Old Wine, New Skins honors history thesis of the same Models of Roman Leadership in the title: “Old Wine, Court of Charlemagne New Skins: Models of Roman Leadership in the Katarina Alyss Brewbaker Court of Charlemagne.” I recently graduated from the University of Senior Honors Thesis (History) Hawai’i at Mānoa with a Bachelors in Mentor: Dr. Karen Jolly History, with a concentration in pre- Modern Europe. I have a background in Political Science, which aided in my Modern western society looks back on the Roman Empire as a model for politics, economics, and analysis of this crossover period social relations. The use of the Roman Empire as a foundation for political organization began between Late Antiquity and the early in the Early Middle Ages with the development of the idea of Christian kingship. However, in Middle Ages. -
Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithards Histories Pdf
FREE CAROLINGIAN CHRONICLES: ROYAL FRANKISH ANNALS AND NITHARDS HISTORIES PDF Bernhard Walter Scholz | 248 pages | 15 Mar 1970 | The University of Michigan Press | 9780472061860 | English | Ann Arbor, United States Royal Frankish Annals - Wikipedia The University carolinhian Sydney. Written by carolimgian close to the contemporary sources of power, the Annals and Histories provide fascinating glimpses of how the Carolingians viewed themselves, their actions, and their times. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. The identities of any of the authors save that of the fourth section are unknown, but production by a group of clerics associated with the Carolingian court is likely. The revised texts are based carolingjan a Class D manuscript. Separate different tags with a comma. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Class E comprises the revised editions of the annals, and are by far the most numerous. The translation is clean, though i regrettably do not have the requisite llinguistic knowledge to judge the accuracy. The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire. In truth I bought this book as required reading for school, but found it quite fascinating. In addition to astronomical oddities, such as eclipsesthe supernatural begins to enter the account, set against almost ritualistic yearly notices of the regular passages of Christmas and Easter. These contain various additions not found in the previous two classes, and Kurze divides them based on what other texts are found in their codices, such as the Liber historiae Francorum. The differences between the earlier and revised versions of the Annals have been indicated in the text, to insure a complete and accurate edition of significant work. -
THE CONQUEST of SAXONY AD 782–785 Charlemagne’S Defeat of Widukind of Westphalia
THE CONQUEST OF SAXONY AD 782–785 Charlemagne’s defeat of Widukind of Westphalia DAVID NICOLLE ILLUSTRATED BY GRAHAM TURNER © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com CAMPAIGN 271 THE CONQUEST OF SAXONY AD 782–785 Charlemagne’s defeat of Widukind of Westphalia DAVID NICOLLE ILLUSTRATED BY GRAHAM TURNER Series editor Marcus Cowper © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: FRANKS AND SAXONS 5 CHRONOLOGY 19 OPPOSING COMMANDERS 22 Carolingian commandersSaxon commanders OPPOSING FORCES 32 Carolingian forcesSaxon forces OPPOSING PLANS 42 Carolingian plansSaxon plans THE CAMPAIGN 46 Carolingian defeat in the Süntel Hills, AD 782The Saxon defeat AFTERMATH 79 A continuing struggleImpact on the SaxonsImpact on the Carolingians THE BATTLEFIELDS TODAY 91 FURTHER READING 93 INDEX 95 © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com The Carolingian kingdom and its neighbours, c. AD 782 N 1. Willebrord of Northumbria’s mission to 7. Southern provinces of the Lombard the Frisians (c. ad 690–739). Kingdom of Italy divided between the 2. Boniface of Wessex’s mission to the Duchy of Spoleto (nominally Papal) and Frisians and Hessians (c. AD 716–754). the Lombard Principality of Benevento). 3. Willehad of Northumbria’s mission to the 8. March of Friuli established in AD 776. Saxons (AD 780–789). 9. Against Lombard Kingdom of Italy in 4. Territory south of the Teutoburger Wald AD 773–74. KINGDOM lost by Franks to Saxons in AD 695, 10. Against rebel Lombard Duke of Friuli reconquered AD 722–804. later in AD 776. OF THE 5. Bavaria under Carolingian overlordship 11. Against Saragossa in AD 778. SCOTTISH KINGDOMS PICTS from AD 778.