This fascinating and wide-ranging volume explores lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in early medieval Europe. Leading historians demonstrate that the learned laity, both women as well as men, contributed much more as writers and patrons to early medieval culture than was previously thought.
This fascinating and wide-ranging volume explores lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in early medieval Europe. Leading historians demonstrate that the learned laity, both women as well as men, contributed much more as writers and patrons to early medieval culture than was previously thought.
1. In place of an introduction Janet L. Nelson; 2. Secular sanctity: forging an ethos for the Carolingian nobility Thomas F. X. Noble; 3. Einhardus Peccator David Ganz; 4. The world, the text, and the Carolingian: royal, aristocratic and masculine identities in Nithard's histories Stuart Airlie; 5. Eberhard of Friuli, a Carolingian lay intellectual Paul J. E. Kershaw; 6. Dhuoda Janet L. Nelson; 7. Intellectual women? Liutberga and the education of Carolingian women Valerie Garver; 8. Charles the Bald, Hincmar of Rheims, and the ivory of the pericopes of Henry II Celia Chazelle; 9. Problems of authorship and audience in the writings of Alfred the Great David Pratt; 10. 'Stand strong against the monsters': kingship and learning in the empire of King Æthelstan Michael Wood; 11. The lay intellectual in Anglo-Saxon England: Ealdorman Æthelweard as historian Scott Ashley; 12. Conclusion Richard Abels.
1. In place of an introduction Janet L. Nelson; 2. Secular sanctity: forging an ethos for the Carolingian nobility Thomas F. X. Noble; 3. Einhardus Peccator David Ganz; 4. The world, the text, and the Carolingian: royal, aristocratic and masculine identities in Nithard's histories Stuart Airlie; 5. Eberhard of Friuli, a Carolingian lay intellectual Paul J. E. Kershaw; 6. Dhuoda Janet L. Nelson; 7. Intellectual women? Liutberga and the education of Carolingian women Valerie Garver; 8. Charles the Bald, Hincmar of Rheims, and the ivory of the pericopes of Henry II Celia Chazelle; 9. Problems of authorship and audience in the writings of Alfred the Great David Pratt; 10. 'Stand strong against the monsters': kingship and learning in the empire of King Æthelstan Michael Wood; 11. The lay intellectual in Anglo-Saxon England: Ealdorman Æthelweard as historian Scott Ashley; 12. Conclusion Richard Abels.
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