Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation
This volume of specially-commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of renewal to emphasize the enormous creativity and inventiveness of the Franks. Carolingian culture provided the bedrock for the subsequent development of medieval European culture, and this is...
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A collection of essays on the remarkable cultural and intellectual creativity of the Carolingians in eight- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language.
List of platesList of contributorsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1Introduction: the Carolingian Renaissance12Kingship and empire in the Carolingian world523The study of grammar884The emergence of Carolingian Latin literature and the court of Charlemagne (780-814)1115German vernacular literature: a survey1416Carolingian thought1717The writing of history1938Script and book production2219Emulation and invention in Carolingian art24810Carolingian music27411The legacy of the Carolingians317Index of manuscripts324General index326
