Codex Epistolaris Carolinus

Letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791

AvRosamond McKitterick,Dorine van Espelo

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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The Codex epistolarisCarolinus preserves ninety-nine letters, dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Frankishking Charlemagne and his predecessors. The compilation was commissioned byCharlemagne in 791, but the sole surviving medieval manuscript of the letterswas made at Cologne in the later ninth century and is now in Vienna(Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 449). The headings or lemmata provided for each letter by theFrankish compilers in 791 and faithfully preserved in the codex, add adistinctive Frankish commentary on events in Rome and Italy in the second halfof the eighth century. This book not only provides the first full Englishtranslation of the letters and lemmatain the Codex epistolaris Carolinusbut also re-creates the original Carolingian order of presentation of theletters according to the manuscript. A substantial introduction discusses thehistorical significance of the collection, the compilation and contexts of theVienna manuscript, especially the significance of the lemmata, the peculiarities of the Latin of the papal letters andthe biblical citations, and the historical context of the letters themselves.The lemmata and letter translationsare augmented with introductions to each letter and a comprehensive historicalcommentary and glossary.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-03
Mått:147 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Translated Texts for Historians
Antal sidor:546
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781802078251

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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).

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'This volume will be welcomed equally by established scholars and should ensure that this valuable resource appears even more in future research.'Geoffrey D. Dunn, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association

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INTRODUCTIONI The Codex epistolaris CarolinusRosamond McKitterick, and Dorine van Espelo II 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 PriceIV The Franks, Italy and the popes, 739-791Rosamond McKitterick1. Introduction2. Competing political interests in Italy, 739-7913. The Codex Carolinus and the Liber PontificalisNote on the dating of the lettersCODEX 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 lettersConcordance: The Codex epistolaris Carolinus in ÖNB 449 and the MGH edition of GundlachGlossary of technical terms in the translationBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX