Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe: Letters, Numbers, Exegesis, and Manuscripts (Variorum Collected Studies)

'Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005. Centered in the Carolingian age, they explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. Several essays consider the significance of numerical and scientific studies in the Carolingian curriculum, including the impact of Bede's scientific works in the schools and on the thought of John Scottus (Eriugena). Another reconstructs Eriugena's early career in light of his Glossae divinae historiae. Carolingian biblical culture is the subject of two essays, including a reading of Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Ezechiel that highlights the unfinished and unpublished commentary's critique of Carolingian society. A poem in the Anthologia Latina long ascribed to Octavian, the Roman emperor, is restored to the monastic culture of the ninth century. Finally, an article on the Laon Formulary, originally published in French in 1973, is here translated and revised.'--Provided by publisher Cover Series Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements I "Building mansions in Heaven": the Visio Baronti, Archangel Raphael, and a Carolingian king II The pursuit of knowledge in Carolingian Europe Ill Counting, calendars, and cosmology: numeracy in the early Middle Ages IV Bede's scientific works in the Carolingian age V John Scottus and Bede VI The early career and formation of John Scottus VII Carolingian Biblical culture VIII "By lions, bishops are meant; by wolves, priests": history, exegesis, and the Carolingian church in Haimo of Auxerre's Commentary on Ezechiel IX What was Emperor Augustus doing at a Carolingian banquet (Anth. Lat.2 719f)? X The Laon Formulary and the cathedral school of Laon at the beginning of the tenth century Addenda Index of persons, places and subjects Index of manuscripts