Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire : Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) /
By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political reforms 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 bro...
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Amsterdam :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Framing the Carolingian Reforms: The Early Years of Louis the Pious
- Building an Empire
- Communities and Discourse Communities
- Between Cloister and Court
- 2. Model for Empire: The Councils of 813 and the Institutio Canonicorum
- Road to 813
- Teaching the Empire
- `An Effort, not an Honour': Bishops and Their Responsibilities
- Church Fathers in Aachen
- Correcting Communities
- Communicating Correctio
- Channelling Authority
- 3. Monks on the Via Regia: The World of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
- Life in Context
- Directions for a King: The Via Regia
- Explaining a Way: The Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicts
- Crowning Achievement: The Diadema Monachorum
- Lives of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
- 4. Caesar et abba simul: Monastic Reforms between Aachen and Aniane
- Emperor and the Monks
- On the Outside Looking In
- Armed with the Javelins of Debate': Benedict of Aniane Goes to Court
- Death of an Abbot.