Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire / Rutger Kramer.

• VerfasserIn: Kramer, Rutger,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Early medieval North Atlantic.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; A Note on Translations, Sources and Names --; Prologue. Great Expectations --; 1. Framing the Carolingian Reforms : The Early Years of Louis the Pious --; 2. A Model for Empire : The Councils of 813 and the Institutio Canonicorum --; 3. Monks on the Via Regia: The World of Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel --; 4. Caesar et abba simul : Monastic Reforms between Aachen and Aniane --; Epilogue. Imperial Responsibilities and the Discourse of Reforms --; Bibliography --; Index
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-273) and index.
• ISBN: 904853268X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rutger Kramer.

"By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, Louis the Pious and his court seized the momentum generated by their predecessors and broadened the scope of these reforms ever further. These reformers knew they represented a movement greater than the sum of its parts; the interdependence between those wielding imperial authority and those bearing responsibility for ecclesiastical reforms was driven by comprehensive, yet still surprisingly diverse expectations. Taking this diversity as a starting point, this book takes a fresh look at the optimistic first decades of the ninth century. Extrapolating from a series of detailed case studies rather than presenting a new grand narrative, it offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of personal improvement and institutional correctio, and shows the self-awareness of its main instigators as they pondered what it meant to be a good Christian in a good Christian empire"--