Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation

by Edited by Rosamond McKitterick

• ISBN13: 9780521405867
• ISBN10: 0521405866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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 demonstrated amply by essays that are planned as a series of introductions to the study of each topic.

Table of Contents

1. The Carolingian Renaissance: an introduction Giles Brown

2. Kingship and empire: Carolingian political though, Janet L. Nelson

3. The study of grammar Vivien Law

4. Carolingian thought John Marenbon

5. The writing of history Rosamond McKitterick

6. Carolingian latin literature Mary Garrison

7. Saints and relics in the Carolingian Renaissance Giles Brown

8. Carolingian music Susan Rankin

9. Script and book production Rosamond McKitterick

10. Emulation and invention in Carolingian art George D. S. Henderson

11. The legacy of the Carolingians Rosamond McKitterick

12. German literature in the Frankish Kingdoms: a survey Cyril Edwards.