Dana M Polanichka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1095616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana M Polanichka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana M |
| FAMILY NAME | Polanichka |
| SIGNATURE | POLANICHKA D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | History, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Erotic Hunt
This essay analyzes descriptions of royal and imperial Carolingian women on hunts in both the Paderborn Epic and Ermold’s Carmen in honorem Hludowici Caesaris. It compares these early ninth-century verses to their main classical model, Virgil’s Aeneid, and considers how the latter’s ambiguous depictions of Dido and Venus might have inflected the Carolingian’s poems’ depictions of women. Recognizing that the poets’ panegyrical intentions appear at…
Quasi per speculum’
From 841 to 843 CE, the Frankish noblewoman Dhuoda wrote a text for her son William that adopted two genres: the handbook and lay mirror. This article argues that vision and vigilance were central to the spiritual and political lessons that this mother taught her son. Dhuoda encouraged him to be watchful and observe the spiritual lessons offered by the natural world, especially plants and animals. Yet, she also insisted that William never mistake…
My Temple Should Be a House of Prayer
This essay explores eighth- and early ninth-century Frankish understandings and experiences of churches as holy spaces, arguing that myriad textual genres demonstrate the widespread Carolingian belief in churches as highly sacred spaces as well as the significant variations in the specifics and execution of that belief. The first part of the article details how Carolingian legislation worked to define, recognize, and maintain the sacred space of …
The very personal history of N ithard
N ithard's H istories of the civil wars fought between L ouis the Pious's sons reveal much about mid‐ninth‐century nobility, political values, and the author's changing social position. This article considers how N ithard's immediate familial history affected the text's composition. We argue that his incorporation of authorial voice and detail, crafting of the royal lineage, and emphasis on fraternitas suggest that N ithard employed the text to f…
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The very personal history of N ithard
N ithard's H istories of the civil wars fought between L ouis the Pious's sons reveal much about mid‐ninth‐century nobility, political values, and the author's changing social position. This article considers how N ithard's immediate familial history affected the text's composition. We argue that his incorporation of authorial voice and detail, crafting of the royal lineage, and emphasis on fraternitas suggest that N ithard employed the text to f…
My Temple Should Be a House of Prayer
This essay explores eighth- and early ninth-century Frankish understandings and experiences of churches as holy spaces, arguing that myriad textual genres demonstrate the widespread Carolingian belief in churches as highly sacred spaces as well as the significant variations in the specifics and execution of that belief. The first part of the article details how Carolingian legislation worked to define, recognize, and maintain the sacred space of …
Quasi per speculum’
From 841 to 843 CE, the Frankish noblewoman Dhuoda wrote a text for her son William that adopted two genres: the handbook and lay mirror. This article argues that vision and vigilance were central to the spiritual and political lessons that this mother taught her son. Dhuoda encouraged him to be watchful and observe the spiritual lessons offered by the natural world, especially plants and animals. Yet, she also insisted that William never mistake…
The Erotic Hunt
This essay analyzes descriptions of royal and imperial Carolingian women on hunts in both the Paderborn Epic and Ermold’s Carmen in honorem Hludowici Caesaris. It compares these early ninth-century verses to their main classical model, Virgil’s Aeneid, and considers how the latter’s ambiguous depictions of Dido and Venus might have inflected the Carolingian’s poems’ depictions of women. Recognizing that the poets’ panegyrical intentions appear at…
Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)