Pastoral Care and Prognostics in the Carolingian Period: The Case of El Escorial, Real Biblioteca di San Lorenzo, ms L III 8

This article tries to answer the question of what prognostic texts, often interpreted as ‘superstitious’ or even ‘pagan’, might be doing in a pastoral compendium of the Carolingian period. Rather than following the classical interpretation of prognostics as texts that belonged outside Christendom, i...

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Main Author: Rhijn, Carine van (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Abbaye de Maredsous [2017]
In: Revue bénédictine
Year: 2017, Volume: 127, Issue: 2, Pages: 272-297
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Carolingians / Church work / History 789-870
IxTheo Classification:KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
RG Pastoral care
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic