1st Edition
Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe Letters, Numbers, Exegesis, and Manuscripts
By John J. Contreni
Copyright 2011
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005. Centered in the Carolingian age, they explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. Several essays consider the significance of numerical and scientific studies in the... Read more
Contents: Preface; 'Building mansions in Heaven': the Visio Baronti, Archangel Raphael, and a Carolingian king; The pursuit of knowledge in Carolingian Europe; Counting, calendars, and cosmology: numeracy in the early Middle Ages; Bede's scientific works in the Carolingian age; John Scottus and Bede; The early career and formation of John Scottus, (with Pádraig Ó'Néill); Carolingian biblical culture; 'By lions, bishops are meant; by wolves, priests': history, exegesis, and the Carolingian Church in Haimo of Auxerre's Commentary on Ezechiel; What was Emperor Augustus doing at a Carolingian banquet (Anth. Lat.² 719f)?; The Laon Formulary and the cathedral school of Laon at the beginning of the 10th century; Addenda; Indexes.
Biography
John J. Contreni is a Professor in the Department of History, Purdue University, USA
