Augustine and the Art of Ruling in the Carolingian Imperial Period: Political Discourse in Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Rheims

ISBN-13: 9781032177878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Sophia Moesch

Opis

This volume is an investigation of how Augustine was received in the Carolingian period, and the elements of his thought which had an impact on Carolingian ideas of ‘state’, rulership and ethics.

Spis treści

 

Tables

Note on the Text

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

 

Introduction

I. Augustine of Hippo　 　

Influences on the ‘De Civitate Dei’

Augustine’s Stance on Worldly Rule and His Assessment of Politically Organised Communities in the ‘De Civitate Dei’

Concepts of Augustinian Political Thought

Dispensatio

Felix/Felicitas and Beatus/Beatitudo

Iustitia and Pax

　

II. Alcuin of York

Alcuin’s Direct Use of Augustine in the ‘Epistolae’　

Alcuin’s Indirect Use of Augustine: His Stance on Worldly Rule and Recourse to Augustine’s Terminology

　

III. Hincmar of Rheims

Hincmar’s Direct Use of Augustine in the ‘Epistolae’

Hincmar’s Indirect Use of Augustine: His ‘Expositiones ad Carolum Regem’ and ‘De Regis Persona et Regio Ministerio’

 

Conclusion

Carolingian Political Thought c. 800–c. 900

Alcuin’s and Hincmar’s Uses of Augustine in the Light of Changing ‘State-Church’ Relations

　

Index

O autorze

Sophia Moesch is currently an SNSF-funded postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, working on a project entitled ‘Developing Principles of Good Governance: Latin and Greek Political Advice during the Carolingian and Macedonian Reforms’. She completed her PhD in History at King’s College London.