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Walter Ullmann, The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship
Zeitschrift Der Savigny-Stiftung Fur Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung, 1971exaly +2 more sources
On the limits of the Carolingian renaissance
Studies in Church History, 1977Einhard tells us that Charlemagne had a special liking for ‘those books of St Augustine calledThe City of God’. If only he had told us why. Did Charlemagne demand readings from book 5 on the happy Christian emperors? Or was he, as Ladner suggests, particularly attracted by ‘the idea of a society embracing earth and heaven, a society which a man could ...
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The Concept of the Carolingian Renaissance
Journal of the History of Ideas, 1973Any return to the "Renaissance debate" may seem somewhat futile, like the proverbialfouettement d'un chat perhaps, yet it may well be refreshing to enter that worn battleground of historical controversy from a different angle, and to begin our "renaissance" investigations, not in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but in the eighth and ninth, not ...
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The word renaissance means “rebirth.” In the history of the West, it indicates a period of revival of learning—particularly classical learning, that is, information, ideas, and values associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Carolingian Renaissance refers specifically to the flowering of learning and scholarship during the reign of the ...
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The Sacred Art: Medicine in the Carolingian Renaissance
Viator, 2016This article argues that beginning around the turn of the ninth century Carolingian intellectuals engaged in a sustained effort to confirm medicine’s status as a sacred art. It examines the theological justifications for medicine’s utility contained in the Lorscher Arzneibuch. It likewise analyzes how scribes manipulated visual illustrations, metaphors,
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Ivan the Terrible as a Carolingian Renaissance Prince
2020This chapter cites Michael Cherniavsky's imaginative and original but unconvincing attempt to align the image of Ivan the Terrible with literary ruler images and actual rulers in contemporary, sixteenth-century Western Europe. It aligns Muscovy with European history and suggests that the most appropriate comparison for the Muscovy of Ivan IV is early ...
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When Charlemagne was crowned king of the Franks in 768, he embarked on a path that established the most successful reign in western Europe since the Roman Empire. Seeking to expand his kingdom and form a unified Christendom, he initiated a series of military conquests, expanded the borders of his reign to Italy, and brought all of modern-day France and
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