1st Edition
Theodulf of Orléans: Charlemagne's Spokesman against the Second Council of Nicaea
By Ann Freeman
Copyright 2003
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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Who composed in Charlemagne's name the impressive treatise that repudiates the Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (but which, in the end, the king prevented for religio-political reasons from circulating in his own day)? This series of essays explores in turn the liturgical background, the Latinity, attitudes towards images and the historical circumstances of the time, including relations... Read more
Contents: Preface; Preliminary note to study I; Opus Caroli Regis contra synodum: an introduction; Theodulf of Orléans and the Libri Carolini; Carolingian orthodoxy and the fate of the Libri Carolini; Additions and corrections to the Libri Carolini: links with Alcuin and the adoptionist controversy; Further studies in the Libri Carolini, III: the marginal notes in Vaticanus Latinus 7207; Theodulf of Orléans and the psalm citations of the Libri Carolini; Scripture and images in the Libri Carolini; Theodulf of Orléans: a Visigoth at Charlemagne's court; Index.
Biography
Ann Freeman
