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The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period Sara James Laster Old Dominion University Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons Institute for the Humanities Theses Institute for the Humanities Winter 1983 The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period Sara James Laster Old Dominion University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/humanities_etds Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, European History Commons, and the Medieval Studies Commons Recommended Citation Laster, Sara J.. "The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period" (1983). Master of Arts (MA), thesis, Humanities, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/eh3n-wv75 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/humanities_etds/20 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Institute for the Humanities at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Institute for the Humanities Theses by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE RENASCENCE OF CLASSICAL THOUSC AND PQFM IN THE CARQLINGIAN PERIOD by Sara James Taster B.A« June 1969, Mary Baldwin College A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dctninion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirsrent for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS HUMANITIES OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY December 1983 Approved by: Charles Scillia (Director) Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. (§) Copyright by Sara James Taster 1983 All Rights Reserved Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT THE RENASCENCE OF CLASSICAL THOUGHT AND FORM IN THE CAROLINGIAN PERIOD Sara Janes Taster Old Dominion University, 1983 Director: Dr. Charles Scillia The political stability established under the rule of Charlemagne (768-814) was conducive to the flourishing of the simultaneous resurgence of art and learning. Inspired by the achievements of the Reman Bnpire, Charlemagne wished to give his subjects a feeling of spiritual unity, a sense of continuity with the past, and an enhanced intellectual life. The classical intellectual tradition is traced from ancient times to the Carolingian present to demonstrate that classicism was a continuum. The thesis examines the classical tradition in the intellectual life of the Carolingian period, its conscious rejuvenation in the figurative arts, and its manifestation in the imperial architecture of the ninth century. It demonstrates that the Carolingian resurgence of classicism was cal­ culated rather than spontaneous. The widespread enthusiastic interest in classicist! and its fresh interpretation were new, rather than clas­ sicism itself. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TABIE OP CONTENTS Page LIST QF FIGURES................................ - vi Chapter I. THE CAROLINGIAN RENASCENCE................ 1 RENAISSANCE OR RENASCENCE?......................... 2 CHARLEMAGNE....................................... 2 THE MEANING OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY.................. 4 II. EDUCATION AND THE CLASSICAL INTELLECTUAL TRADITION....... 8 CLASSICAL CONTINUITY.............................. 9 THE FATHERS QF THE LATIN CHURCH...................... 9 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES................................ 13 THE BRITISH ISLES.................................... 15 THE GATHERING OF SCHOLARS............................. 19 ALCUIN........................................... 23 ITALIANS AT C O U R T ................................ 26 THEODULF OF ORLEANS ............................... 27 EINHARD QF SEEJNGSTADT............................. 29 III. THE FIGURATIVE ARTS AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION........... 33 MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION............................... 34 THE ADA SCHOOL ...................................... 37 THE GODESCALC GOSPEL............................... 37 SAH7T-MEDARD-DE-SOISSONS........................... 38 THE PAIACE SCHOOL.................................... 42 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Page THE CORONATION GOSPELS......................... 45 THE JULIANA CODEX ............................. 46 DECORATIVE ARTS.................................. 47 THE LQRSCH GOSPELS COVERS ...................... 47 RELIQUARIES: THE EINHARD CROSSBASE............. 52 IV. ARCHITECTURE AND THE PAST............................. 55 AACHEN: THE SITE AND THE BUHDINGS................ 57 SOURCES OF INSPIRATION FOR THE PAIACE CHAPEL ....... 63 SAN VITAIE.................................... 63 PALATIAL PREDECESSORS............................. 66 SPAIATO ...................................... 66 THE SACRED PALACE OF CONSTANTINOPLE............. 67 THE INFLUENCE OF CONSTANTINE...................... 68 THE LATERAN PALACE............................. 69 CONSTANTINIAN BUHDINGS ....................... 69 THE ULTIMATE MEANING OF THE PALACE CHAPEL........... 71 BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................... 74 v Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE PACE 1. Portrait of the Evangelist St. Made, The Gospel Book of Godescalc........................................... 39 2. The Fountain of Life, The Gospel Book of Godescalc......... 40 3. The Fountain of Life, Gospel Bock of Saint-MSdard-de- Soissons............................................... 41 4. Portrait of the Evangelist St. Matthew, The Coronation G o s p e l s ............................................... 43 5. The Four Evangelists, Juliana Anica Codex ................ 44 6. Front Cover, The Iorsch Gospels, Christ Treading the Beasts Flanked by Angels................................. 49 7. Back Cover, The Iorsch Gospels, The Virgin and Child Flanked by Zaccharias and John the Baptist................ 50 8. Model of the Einhard Reliquary........................... 53 9. Interior of the Palatine Chapel, A a c h e n .................. 56 vi Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. CHAPTER I 'THE CAROLINGIAN RENASCENCE As the political stability of the Western Ranan Bnpire began to falter in the late fourth century and barbarian tribes ravaged the hinterlands, classical culture quietly slipped into obscurity save for a group of scattered isolated monasteries. Western Europe emerged from the chaos nearly a half a millennium later viable and united as the Frankish kingdom and the papacy formed an alliance against the bar­ barians. The union brought about political stability and in turn economic prosperity providing a climate conducive to the flourishing of art, literature, and culture. Charlemagne, upon inheriting the Frankish throne, was keenly aware of the climate of the times. He was interested in the restoration of the Reman Empire in its complete form.'*' The cultural expression of this political idea is known as the Carolingian Renaissance. The move­ ment extended from the last quarter of the eighth century through the first half of the ninth. Although it came to an abrupt halt less than a half a century after Charlemagne's death in 814, its influence con­ tinued throughout the following centuries. ^Encyclopedia of World Art, 1971 ed., s.v., "Medieval Classicism," by Eugenio Battisti. 1 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Renaissance or Renascence? The classical tradition did not vanish with the dissolution of the Reman Bnpire nor did any Carolingian believe that it did. An eighth-century "renaissance" of classicism, therefore, did not occui^ for the tradition was never perceived as lost. According to art historian Erwin Panofsky a Renaissance assumes a period of dormancy, looks to the distant past, and claims to be a radical break with the recent past, a 2 rebirth after a period of void. The Carolingian period was a "renascence," a conscious rejuvenation of a continuing tradition. The movement was deliberate rather than spontaneous arising from the per­ ceived necessity to reform dilapidated government and church insti­ tutions, language, and art. The goals of tne movement were xr;tinuity and reform. Originality was never a priority. The approach to clas­ sicism was pragmatic, breaking dewn into individual ideas and forms, taking from them only that which was useful. The classical world was never considered in its entirety or in its cwn context but only in the way in which individual ideas related to Carolingian needs. The con­ trived nature of a "renascence" also causes such a movement to be transitory; the Carolingian period lasted only for about seventy-five 3 years. Charlemagne The reign of Charlemagne or Charles the Great, as king of the Franks and later as Reman Emperor, spans nearly half a century from 763 until his death in 814. Inspired by the achievements of the Reman ^rwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, Icon eds. (New York: Harper and Rew, Publishers, 1969; Icon eds., 1972), pp. 29, 36-38. ^Ibid., pp. 29, 106-11. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Bnpire, Charles set out to reform the Frankish political and ecclesi­ astical administration; to institute an educated civil service; make uniform the units of measure and the monetary system; to revitalize art, architecture, literature, education, and the Latin language; to insti­ tute a new simple script; and to give his subjects a
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