Charlemagne's (Karl der Grosse) heir. New perspectives on the reign of Louis the Pious (Ludwig der Fromme) -814-840-. A conference at Oxford in the spring of 1986

This is a unique, comprehensive study of the life and reign of Louis the Pious who, in the early ninth century, inherited the empire of Charlemagne. The collection of essays, written by an international team of leading scholars, presents the fruits of intensive and wide-ranging research. Written in English, French, and German, and covering such topics as politics and the royal court, military expansion, the church, the law, literature, art, and architecture, this invaluable collection will offer a new perspective on the reign of Louis the Pious for all students of the Carolingian period. Preface Contents Abbreviations Editorial Note I. Government, Politics and the Court 1. Hludovicus Augustus: Gouverner l’empire chrétien — Idées et réalités 2. Renovatio Regni Francorum: Die Herrschaft Ludwigs des Frommenim Frankenreich 814—829/830 3. The Last Years of Louis the Pious 4. Einheitsidee und Teilungsprinzip in der Regierungszeit Ludwigs des Frommen 5. Bonds of Power and Bonds of Association in the Court Circle of Louis the Pious 6. Caesar’s Wife: The Career of the Empress Judith, 819-829 II. Church and Empire 7. Ludwig der Fromme, das Papsttum und die fränkische Kirche 8. Der Missionsauftrag Christi und das Kaisertum Ludwigs des Frommen 9. Louis the Pious and the Papacy 10. La Christianisation des campagnes de l’Empire de Louis le Pieux: L’Exemple du diocèse de Liège sous l’épiscopat de Walcaud (c. 809-c. 831) III. Fines Imperii 11. Louis the Pious and the Frontiers of the Frankish Realm 12. Ludwig der Fromme, Lothar L und das Regnum Italiae 13. Pippin I and the Kingdom of Aquitaine 14. The End of Carolingian Military Expansion IV. The Framework of Law 15. Probleme einer zukünftigen Edition der Urkunden Ludwigs des Frommen 16. The Capitulary Legislation of Louis the Pious 17. Recently Discovered Capitulary Texts Belonging to the Legislation of Louis the Pious 18. Une ordinario méconnue: Le Capitulaire de 823-825 V. Learning and Literature 19. Texts, Chant, and the Chapel of Louis the Pious 20. Zeugnisse der Memorialüberlieferung aus der Zeit Ludwigs des Frommen 21. The Scribes of the Corbie a-b 22. The Epitaphium Arsenii and Opposition to Louis the Pious 23. The Prose and Verse Hagiography of Walahfrid Strabo 24. The Poetic Hunt: From Saint Martin to Charlemagne's Heir VI. Art and Architecture 25. Book Illumination at the Court of Louis the Pious 26. Louis the Pious as Miles Christi: The Dedicatory Image in Hrabanus Maurus's De taudibus sanctae crucis 27. Antiquarianism in the Time of Louis the Pious and its Influence on the Art of Metz 28. Allgemeine Tendenzen im Kirchenbau unter Ludwig dem Frommen 29. Der St. Galler Klosterplan: Überlegungen zu seiner Herkunft und Entstehung VII. The Historiographical Tradition 30. Thegan und Astronomus, die beiden Geschichtsschreiber Ludwigs des Frommen 31. „Des großen Kaisers kleiner Sohn“: Zum Bild Ludwigs des Frommen in der älteren deutschen Geschichtsforschung General Index Index of Manuscripts This collection of essays draws on newly-discovered sources and the latest research, to open up new perspectives on the reign of Charlemagne's heir, and on the Carolingian period as a whole.