Carolingian renewal : sources and heritage
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Carolingian renewal : sources and heritage
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
The collected works of a Carolingian scholar are presented in this volume, which traces the origins of this Frankish dynasty, examines the Carolingian court and studies its influence on a period of reform in 10th-century England.
Table of Contents
- Roman books and Carolingian "renovatio"
- "imagines regum" and their significance in the early medieval West
- ethnic history and the Carolingians - an alternative reading of Paul the Deacon's "Historia Langobardorum"
- "aula renovata" - the Carolingian court before the Aachen Palace
- Alcuin and the kingdom of heaven - liturgy, theology and the Carolingian age
- texts, chant and the Chapel of Louis the Pious
- the continental background of 10th-century English reform
- the educational tradition in England from Alfred to Aelfric.
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