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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Carolingian"”.
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The Manuscript Circulation and Use of Bede’s Martyrology and Religious Practice in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, to c. 1250
… Roman Martyrology. The nature of the so-called Carolingian reforms has been reconceptualised in recent scholarship. The role of liturgical manuscripts within this context has also received renewed analysis. Following these historiographical developments, the manuscript circulation and use of …
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An Interdisciplinary Investigation into Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice
… of the medical knowledge circulating in the Carolingian world, I first identified, transcribed, and translated remedies recorded in eighteen eighth- and ninth-century Latin manuscripts. I then analysed the potential practicality of the ingredients listed in these remedies, asking: do they …
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
… much of its prestige from the links with the Carolingian court as early as the late eighth century. From the first decades after its foundation, the Po Valley abbey also benefited from an active scriptorium; this shaped a local type of text script that endured until after the fall of the …
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God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900
The historians writing in the Carolingian Empire, with a few important exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the …
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The Dissemination and Reception of the Ordines Romani in the Carolingian Church, c.750-900
… made very clear that what occurred under the Carolingians in the liturgy did not involve the imposition of the Roman rite from above. What was ‘Roman’ and ‘correct’ was decided by individuals, each in their own case, and they created and edited texts for what they needed. These individuals …
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Dúngal: A Study of his Life and Works
… in order to investigate broader questions about Carolingian intellectual history in the ninth century: what texts were they reading, what questions were they asking, or how were manuscripts being constructed, used, and reused? In sum, it examines Dúngal in order to contribute to our understanding …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
… medieval successors to the Roman Empire (the Carolingian, the Byzantine, and the Umayyad states). Early medieval cosmological images remained formally and iconographically close to their late antique models. They thus provide a point of comparison allowing examination of the changing functions …
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We are not the periphery: barbarian economies and Northern Europe in the exchange patterns of Western Eurasia, 1800 BC - AD 900
… both as producer and consumer. Especially in the Carolingian period (AD 700 - 900), the system as a whole can be characterized best as a vast circuit of exchange flows rather than in terms of center - periphery relationships. The major regions participating in the western Eurasian exchange circuit …
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
… Italy, Rome and northern Italy, as well as Carolingian and Ottoman paintings have been associated in one way or another to the frescoes of Castelseprio. Their style recalls the Hellenism which had survived in the East until the burst of the iconoclastic controversy (AD 726). Therefore, they …
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Alcuin's heirs : the early reception of Alcuin's De Rhetorica and De Dialectica.
… in describing intellectual activity in the Carolingian period. My argument consists of two parts. I begin by showing that the codicological structure of the manuscript would argue against a common origin for all of its texts. I then examine the possible original contexts both for Alcuin's De …
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A Matter of Faith and Works: Byzantine Leaders and Christian Leadership in the Historia Langobardorum
… of Christian governance idealized during the Carolingian Renaissance.
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The Reception of Cyprian of Carthage in Early Medieval Europe
… the Donatists in fourth-century North Africa to Carolingian priests, is a central part of the thesis. The appropriation of the Church Father by different groups, including Arian writers in the aftermath the Council of Aquileia, proves not only the sense of authority Cyprian’s works invoked but …
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Aspects of the Jewish Experience in Northern Europe, 800 to 1096
… hardships for the Jews, but the rise of the Carolingian empire, Charlemagne's abilities as a statesman, and his desire to create an empire in the style of Rome, helped to enhance the stature of the Jews.</p> <p>But the advent of the feudal period provided an obstacle to the development of …
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