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The Prague Sacramentary : culture, religion, and politics in late eighth-century Bavaria / edited by Maximilian Diesenberger, Rob Meens, and Els Rose.
- Title
- The Prague Sacramentary : culture, religion, and politics in late eighth-century Bavaria / edited by Maximilian Diesenberger, Rob Meens, and Els Rose.
- Publication
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, c2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BR738.2 .P734 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 261 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Prague Sacramentary is a unique liturgical manuscript which can be very precisely located in a specific social and historical context. It was written in the turbulent period when Charlemagne crossed Bavaria to fight the Avars and when his son Pippin rebelled against him, seeking support among the Bavarian nobility. The manuscript can be linked to specific groups of Bavarian elites that had to come to terms with this explosive political situation. It also elucidates the ways in which Christian culture was expressed and experienced in Bavaria at the end of the eighth century. Although Bavaria may be regarded as a periphery from a Frankish perspective, it was certainly no cultural backwater. Because of its geographical position at the crossroads of Italian, Bavarian, and Frankish culture, Bavaria produced unique and intriguing texts and artefacts. One such object is analysed here by a team of experts, shedding renewed light on the earthly and heavenly concerns of an early medieval community in a specific region. It includes a discussion of the topics of the formal invocation of saints, vernacular understandings of Latin texts, marriage, politics, and concerns for ritual purity as well as the well-being of the conflict-ridden Carolingian family."--
- Series Statement
- Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages ; volume 21
- Uniform Title
- Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages v. 21.
- Alternative Title
- Culture, religion, and politics in late eighth-century Bavaria
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Konferenzschrift – 2008 – Prag.
- History.
- Note
- Results from a two-day workshop of international scholars organized in Prague in 2008.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Rob Meens and Els Rose -- Part I. A Book and its users. The work of the scribes in the Prague Sacramentary, Prague, Archiv Pražského hradu, MS O.83 / Rosamond McKitterick -- Die althochdeutsche Glossierung des Prager Sakramentars / Elvira Glaser -- Framing the Sacramentary of Prague: Munich Universitätsbibliothek, MS 4° 3 and is context / Maximilian Diesenberger -- Part II. A Mirror of religious culture -- The liturgy of the Prague Sacramentary / Yitzhak Hen -- The sanctoral cycle of the Prague Sacramentary / Els Rose -- De creatione mundi in the Prague Sacramentary / Richard Corradini -- Part III. Breaking and building identities. The authority of Gregory the Great: marriage and politics in Bavaria in the eighth century as exemplified in the 'Gregorian Part' of the Prague Sacramentary / Rob Meens -- La prière pour les rois et le status regni dans le sacramentaire de Prague et l'attention portée par Charlemagne au salut de la communanté politique / Philippe Depreux -- Earthly and heavenly networks in a world in flux: Carolingian family identities and the Prague Sacramentary / Stuart Airlie.
- ISBN
- 9782503549200 (hd.bd.)
- 2503549209 (hd.bd.)
- 9782503549996 (online) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 9782503549200
- OCLC
- 953712928
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library