The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion

Framsida
Cambridge University Press, 5 juli 2001 - 338 sidor
The Carolingian 'Renaissance' of the late eighth and ninth centuries, in what is now France, western Germany and northern Italy, transformed medieval European culture. At the same time it engendered a need to ensure that clergy, monks and laity embraced orthodox Christian doctrine. This book offers a fresh perspective on the period by examining transformations in a major current of thought as revealed through literature and artistic imagery: the doctrine of the Passion and the crucified Christ. The evidence of a range of literary sources is surveyed - liturgical texts, poetry, hagiography, letters, homilies, exegetical and moral tractates - but special attention is given to writings from the discussions and debates concerning artistic images, Adoptionism, predestination and the Eucharist.
 

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Introduction
1
The passion and Christological inquiry at the court of Charlemagne
14
The crucified God in the Gellone Sacramentary and Hrabanus Maurus In honorem sanctae crucis
75
The crucified Christ in later Carolingian literature
132
For whom did Christ die? the controversy over divine predestination
165
Onetime sacrifice daily food and drink the controversy over the eucharist
209
Three later Carolingian crucifixion images
239
Conclusion
300
Select bibliography
305
Index
327
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