Epitaph for an Era - Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. History: 2. Interconnected lives; 3. Between the cloister and the court; Part II. Rhetoric: 4. Lament and dialogue; 5. Strategies of persuasion; 6. What's in a name?; Part III. Politics: 7. Radbert and the rebellions; 8. For God, King and country; 9. The world they had lost; Conclusion.

About the author

Mayke de Jong taught Medieval History at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands from 1987 until her retirement in 2016. She has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Since 1999, she has been a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Publishing widely on the interface between religion and politics in the early Middle Ages, her works include In Samuel's Image (1995), Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages, edited with Frans Theuws and Carine van Rhijn (2001) and The Penitential State (Cambridge, 2009).

Summary

Epitaph for an Era is the first major study of the Epitaphium Arsenii, a polemical dialogue defending the courtier Wala's revolt in 830–833 against Emperor Louis the Pious. Mayke de Jong explores the impact of these controversial rebellions on the ideals and values of the Frankish leadership in the next generation.

Product details

• Authors: Mayke de Jong, Mayke (Universiteit Utrecht De Jong
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781107014312
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01431-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, France, European History, English, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, Italy, Religion: general, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Medieval History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE