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Augustine and the Art of Ruling in the Carolingian Imperial Period
Sophia Moesch
2019
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The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351116022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351116022 Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This volume is an investigation of how Augustine was received in the Carolingian period, and the elements of his thought which had an impact on Carolingian ideas of ‘state’, rulership and ethics. It focuses on Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Rheims, authors and political advisers to Charlemagne and to Charles the Bald, respectively. It examines how they used Augustinian political thought and ethics, as manifested in the De civitate Dei, to give more weight to their advice. A comparative approach sheds light on the differences between Charlemagne’s reign and that of his grandson. It scrutinizes Alcuin’s and Hincmar’s discussions of empire, rulership and the moral conduct of political agents during which both drew on the De civitate Dei, although each came away with a different understanding. By means of a philological–historical approach, the book offers a deeper reading and treats the Latin texts as political discourses defined by content and language.
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Keywords
- Ad Carolum
- Augustine’s De Civitate Dei
- Augustine’s De Trinitate
- Augustine’s Influence
- Augustinian Political Thought
- Augustinisme Politique
- Bishop Hincmar
- Carolingian Authors
- Carolingian Political
- Carolingian Texts
- Christian Roman Emperors
- Civitas Dei
- Civitas Terrena
- De Civitate Dei
- De Institutione Regia
- De Rectoribus Christianis
- Earthly Systems
- Frankish Realm
- God’s Providential Plan
- Hippo Regius
- Leo III
- Muslim world
- Populus Christianus
- Roman Imperial Tradition
- Sedulius Scottus
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHF Medieval Western philosophy
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity
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DOI: 10.4324/9781351116022Editions