Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms, Hardback Book

Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms Hardback

Edited by Arthur Westwell, Ingrid Rembold, Carine (Universitair docent-onderzoeker (lecturer)) van Rhijn

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The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of ‘reform’ or ‘renaissance’, where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio.

This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite.

However, attention to understudied texts and manuscripts of the period reveals a vibrant striving for moral improvement and positive change at all levels of society.

This expressed itself in a variety of ways for different individuals and communities, whose personal relationships could be just as influential as top-down prescription.

The often anonymous creators and copyists in a huge range of centres emerge as active participants in shaping and re-shaping the ideals of their world. -- .

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