Monte Cassino and Carolingian politics around 800
Sven Meeder
This chapter examines the context of Monte Cassino's fading into background, in conviction that both political and religious concerns were at play. What Mayke de Jong has emphasised her publications teaching is a too sharply defined distinction ambitions misses mark for our period. Spiritual had secular components repercussions, vice versa. In his efforts to further reforms Charlemagne relied on networks based trust, loyalty values shared with fideles. The two meanings word fides, 'faith' 'fidelity', exemplify interwovenness politics religion Carolingian empire. When it comes assessing position within Charlemagne's network renovatio, important clues are held by Theodemar's epistolary guide world Benedictine monastic discipline, including lengthy discussion fashion.
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