Codex Epistolaris Carolinus

Rosamond McKitterick is Professor Emerita of Medieval History, University of Cambridge. Her most recent book is Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis (Cambridge 2020).Dorine van Espelo is Policy Advisor, Province of Gelderland, The Netherlands. She is co-editor of Religious Franks. Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong (Manchester 2016).Richard Pollard is Professor in the Department of History, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is the editor of Imagining the Medieval Afterlife (Cambridge 2020).Richard Price is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. His many previous publications include The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (with P. Booth & C. Cubitt, Liverpool 2014), The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (Liverpool 2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431 (with T. Graumann, Liverpool 2020), Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (Liverpool 2020) and The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (with Federico Montinaro, Liverpool 2022).

‘Rosamond McKitterick has spent most of her illustrious career building our knowledge of the Carolingian Empire, its sophisticated textual culture, and its relationship with Rome… this volume makes an important body of textual evidence much more accessible and will appeal to anyone interested in medieval scribal cultures and Latin literature, as well the more general history of eighth-century Europe. The authors are to be congratulated on their superb contribution to the study of the early Carolingian period, its key players, and its epistolary legacy.’ Bronwen Neil, Early Medieval Europe

• INTRODUCTIONI The Codex epistolaris CarolinusRosamond McKitterick, and Dorine van EspeloII The Codex epistolaris Carolinus: compilation and contextsDorine van Espelo1. The late eighth-century context of the compilation2. Letters and letter collections3. The Preface4. The mechanics of sending and receiving letters: the papal legates5. The manuscript: Codex Vindobonensis 449: dating, provenance, codicological and palaeographical features6. The 791 exemplar and the Cologne copy7. The lemmata8. The allusions and comparisons with Old Testament modelIII The Latin of the papal letters Richard Matthew Pollard and Richard Price1. The language and style of the Codex epistolaris Carolinus, and their affinities with other papal documentsRichard Matthew Pollard2. The biblical citationsRichard Matthew Pollard3. Latin grammar in the Codex epistolaris CarolinusRichard Price IV The Franks, Italy and the popes, 739-791Rosamond McKitterick1. Introduction2. Competing political interests in Italy, 739-7913. The Codex Carolinus and the Liber Pontificalis Note on the dating of the letters CODEX EPISTOLARIS CAROLINUSTranslated by Richard Matthew Pollard (Preface and letters 1-11) and Richard Price (letters 12-99)Commentary and historical notes by Rosamond McKitterick Appendix. People mentioned in the letters Concordance: The Codex epistolaris Carolinus in ÖNB 449 and the MGH edition of Gundlach Glossary of technical terms in the translation BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX