Episcopal Identity, Penance and the Carolingian Crisis of 833: Constructing and Re-constructing Collections of Texts in Ninth-Century St Gall
The aim of this article is to discuss the significance and purpose of a group of texts found together in two ninth-century manuscripts from St Gall: Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang., 150 (codicological unit II) (first-to-second quarter of the ninth century) and Cod. Sang. 89 (late ninth or early tenth c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Revue bénédictine
Year: 2019, Volume: 129, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-167 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius, Saint 200-258
/ Gregorius, Nazianzenus 329-390, Ad cives Nazianzenos
/ Anthology
/ Ludwig, I., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser 778-840
/ Civil war
/ History 830-833
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBA Western Europe |
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| Summary: | The aim of this article is to discuss the significance and purpose of a group of texts found together in two ninth-century manuscripts from St Gall: Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang., 150 (codicological unit II) (first-to-second quarter of the ninth century) and Cod. Sang. 89 (late ninth or early tenth century). As this article intends to prove, this collection of texts is conceived as an expression of Carolingian political thought: it can be connected to a specific group of intellectuals presenting themselves as the ‘unity party' during the troublesome decades of the 820s and 830s when the emperor Louis the Pious was facing open rebellion by his sons who were supported by a number of high ecclesiastics. The later addition of a short text entitled De honore parentum (a passage from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiasticus, 3:5-18) in Cod. Sang. 89 in the second half of the ninth century can also be seen as political commentary and also as an effort to ‘reform' a collection which, in view of the volatile relationship between Louis the German and his sons, was possibly tainted by negative connotations. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9009 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue bénédictine
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.RB.5.117642 |