Fathers of Power and Mothers of Authority

Dhuoda and the Liber manualis

Bibliographic Data

ID8940138
AuthorsM A Claussen, Martin Claussen (0000-0001-6225-5488, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume19
Issue3
Pages785-785
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/286647
OpenAlexW2322010450
LanguageEN
Citations received5

When the Carolingian mayor of the palace, Pippin III the Short, deposed the last Merovingian king in 751 and had himself elected and anointed to succeed him, he completed the long ascent of his family to preeminence in Francia and eventually in Europe, a preeminence that would last, in one way or another, for more than two centuries.' Much has been written about the ultimate political consequences of the Carolingian empire, but one of the great legacies it left the West was the general renewal of learning that the Carolingian kings and emperors sponsored.2 Beginning with Pippin's reign, and through those of his descendants, Charlemagne (+814), Louis the Pious (+840), and his great-grandson Charles the Bald (+877), Carolingian kings favored scholars with enormous patronage in their efforts to renew their kingdoms spiritually and intellectually. Although their larger goals might have outstripped their resources, their efforts to produce a moral reform of the peoples under their governance bore some fruit, and it was in fact to this end that the kings themselves, as well as many of the intellectuals of the period, worked.3 This moral concern is perhaps the

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