Carolingian Learning Masters And Manuscripts

Author : John J. Contreni
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolingian Learning, Masters and Manuscripts written by John J. Contreni and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume (including one hitherto unpublished, one in a revised version, and others now provided with additional notes) examine the intellectual and cultural life of early medieval western Europe from a number of different perspectives. The author argues that Carolingian learning must be seen within the general context of the Dynasty's attempt to reform society along Christian lines, and not as a medieval renaissance or revival of classical culture. The efforts of Carolingian leaders and scholars often led to varied results - one of the hallmarks of intellectual and cultural life of the period. Several of the essays focus on prominent themes in 9th century intellectual history - the arts, Bible, education, the role of the Irish - while others shed new light major Carolingian figures such as John Scottus Eriugena, Martin Scottus, Haimo of Auxerre, and Hincmar of Laon. The centrality of the manuscript to the reconstruction of intellectual life of the period is a theme common to all the essays.

Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521362924
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Medieval History written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Author : Adrian Guiu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399070
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to John Scottus Eriugena written by Adrian Guiu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the context, thought, writings and legacy of John Scottus Eriugena, the most important philosopher and theologian in the Latin West from the death of Boethius until the thirteenth century.

Author : Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078278
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Saving Science written by Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created in an age in which careful study of the heavens served a liturgical purpose—to reckon Christian feast days and seasons accurately and thus reflect a “heavenly” order—the diagrams of celestial bodies in the Handbook of 809 are extraordinary signifiers of the intersection of Christian art and classical astronomy. Ramírez-Weaver shows how, by studying this lavishly painted and carefully executed manuscript, we gain a unique understanding of early medieval astronomy and its cultural significance. In a time when the Frankish church sought to renew society through education, the Handbook of 809 presented a model in which study aided the spiritual reform of the cleric’s soul, and, by extension, enabled the spiritual care of his community. An exciting new interpretation of Frankish painting, A Saving Science shows that constellations in books such as Drogo’s were not simple copies for posterity’s sake, but functional tools in the service of the rejuvenation of a creative Carolingian culture.

Author : Anna A. Grotans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521803441
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading in Medieval St. Gall written by Anna A. Grotans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2006 analysis of medieval teaching methods through the surviving manuscripts of the scholar Notker of St Gall.

Author : Cullen J. Chandler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474640
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolingian Catalonia written by Cullen J. Chandler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March and revises traditional interpretations of Catalonia's political and constitutional history.

Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521534369
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Memory in the Carolingian World written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.

Author : Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240800
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages written by Jesse Keskiaho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring a broad range of narrative sources and manuscripts, Jesse Keskiaho investigates how the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory the Great on dreams and visions were read and used in different contexts. Keskiaho argues that the early medieval processes of reception in a sense created patristic opinion about dreams and visions, resulting in a set of authoritative ideas that could be used both to defend and to question reports of individual visionary experiences. This book is a major contribution to discussions about the intellectual place of dreams and visions in the early Middle Ages, and underlines the creative nature of early medieval engagement with authoritative texts.

Author : Greta Austin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351900552
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Church Law Around the Year 1000 written by Greta Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Burchard's 'Decretum', a popular book of Catholic canon law compiled just after the year 1000, sheds new light on the development of law and theology long before the Gregorian Reform, normally considered as a watershed in the history of the Latin Church. Practical episcopal concerns and an appreciation of new scholarly methods led Burchard to be dissatisfied with the quality of contemporary jurisprudence and particularly with the teaching texts available to local bishops. Drawing upon new manuscript discoveries, the author shows how Burchard tried to create a new text that would address these problems. He carefully selected and compiled canons from earlier collections and then went on to tamper systematically with the texts he had chosen. By doing so, he created a book of church law that appeared to be based on indisputable authority, that was internally consistent and that was easy to apply through logical extrapolation to new cases. The present study thus provides a window into the development of legal and theological reasoning in the medieval West, and suggests that, thanks to the work of ambitious bishops, the flowering of law and theology began far earlier, and for different reasons, than scholars have heretofore supposed.

Author : Sinéad O'Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405161
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Medieval Glosses on Prudentius' Psychomachia written by Sinéad O'Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the significance of glosses on Prudentius’ Psychomachia in the German or Weitz manuscript tradition. It redirects attention away from the philological concerns of conventional scholarship toward those of mainstream Carolingian and Ottonian intellectual history.