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Title

Carolingian culture : emulation and innovation / edited by Rosamond McKitterick.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

McKitterick, Rosamond.

Description

xvii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, music; 26 cm

Summary

• This volume of specially commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. The authors, all leading scholars in the field, examine the 'Carolingian Renaissance', political theory, the teaching of grammar, Latin and German literature, thought, the writing of history, script and book production, art and music.
• Each chapter therefore addresses the theme of the legacy of Rome from the vantage point of a particular specialism, incorporates the author's own new research, and provides an introduction to the study of each subject.
• In every respect the essays demonstrate the creation of firm cultural foundations and the inauguration of a long period of intellectual and artistic creativity. Beside the emulation of Rome, the Carolingians made many remarkable innovations in all aspects of cultural life.
• Rather than focusing on 'renewal', as has usually been done, this book stresses the vigorous use of a rich heritage to create something new and distinctively Carolingian that provided the bedrock for the subsequent development of medieval European culture.

Subjects

• Civilization, Medieval > Roman influences
• Art, Carolingian
• Carolingians
• Arts > Europe
• Learning and scholarship > History > Medieval, 500-1500
• Culture diffusion > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction: the Carolingian Renaissance / Giles Brown -- 2. Kingship and empire in the Carolingian world / Janet L. Nelson -- 3. The study of grammar / Vivien Law -- 4. The emergence of Carolingian Latin literature and the court of Charlemagne (780-814) / Mary Garrison -- 5. German vernacular literature: a survey / Cyril Edwards -- 6. Carolingian thought / John Marenbon -- 7. The writing of history / Matthew Innes and Rosamond McKitterick -- 8. Script and book production / Rosamond McKitterick -- 9. Emulation and invention in Carolingian art / George Henderson -- 10. Carolingian music / Susan Rankin -- 11. The legacy of the Carolingians / Rosamond McKitterick.

ISBN

• 0521405246 (hardback)
• 0521405866 (pbk.)

LCCN

92036984

OCLC

• 26855358
• ocm26855358

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries