A Crowning Achievement

Carolingian Imperial Identity in the Chronicon Moissiacense

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ID20035437
AuthorsRutger Kramer (0000-0002-9165-4880, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author)
Year2021
Pages231-269
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHistoriography and Identity III (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrepols Publishers (PUBLISHER • BE)
DOI10.1484/m.celama-eb.5.120166
OpenAlexW3130655389
ISBN9782503586557
LanguageEN
References cited12

wrote a letter to his colleague Étienne Baluze about a number of interesting manuscripts that he had found in the archives of the monastery of Moissac.The list featured many items, such as a seventeen-volume collection of works by Augustine, a copy of the Lex Gothorum, a Sanctorale that was later recognized as Lactantius's lost De mortibus persecutorum, Smaragdus's Diadema monachorum, and an 'old pontifical' . 1 It was enough to raise the interest of Baluze, who at the time served as the librarian of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the notorious Minister of Finances under Louis XIV: the monastery received 1200 francs 'to be used for ornamentations' , and the whole collection was sent to Paris. 2 Also among these manuscripts was 'une ancienne chronique d' Adam à Louis le Débonaire, avec quelques petits traités' . 3 In the centuries that followed, this 'ancient chronicle' , an eleventh-century manuscript that is currently Paris, 1 The complete list may be found in a footnote in Foucault, Mémoires, pp.CXIX-CXX

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