Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire / Rutger Kramer

• Autore: Kramer Rutger
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 pages)
• Disciplina: 944/.014
• Soggetto topico: Politics and government; Church and state; Carolingians; Authority - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Authority - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History; Church and state - Italy - History - To 1500; Church and state - France - History - To 1500
• Soggetto geografico: Italy; France; Italy Politics and government 476-1268; France Politics and government To 987
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Carolingians; authority; church history; monasticism; reforms
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translations, Sources and Names -- Prologue. Great Expectations -- 1. Framing the Carolingian Reforms : The Early Years of Louis the Pious -- 2. A Model for Empire : The Councils of 813 and the Institutio Canonicorum -- 3. Monks on the Via Regia: The World of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel -- 4. Caesar et abba simul : Monastic Reforms between Aachen and Aniane -- Epilogue. Imperial Responsibilities and the Discourse of Reforms -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, Louis the Pious and his court seized the momentum generated by their predecessors and broadened the scope of these reforms ever further. These reformers knew they represented a movement greater than the sum of its parts; the interdependence between those wielding imperial authority and those bearing responsibility for ecclesiastical reforms was driven by comprehensive, yet still surprisingly diverse expectations. Taking this diversity as a starting point, this book takes a fresh look at the optimistic first decades of the ninth century. Extrapolating from a series of detailed case studies rather than presenting a new grand narrative, it offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of personal improvement and institutional correctio, and shows the self-awareness of its main instigators as they pondered what it meant to be a good Christian in a good Christian empire"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire
• ISBN: 90-485-3268-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996433045703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Early medieval North Atlantic.