A Sentence: The Desert War of One Carolingian Monk
Paul Edward Dutton
In 819, a Carolingian monk of St-Emmeram Regensburg accompanied his bishop and army into Pannonia or Hunia in pursuit local lord resistance to authority. We know more about that campaign because scribe, Ellenhart, left colophon describing progress copying out the lives doings Desert Fathers manuscript survives (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique 8216–8218). Ellenhart’s parting words raise questions for microhistorian nature specific war Hungary, medieval travel, why was on military campaign, he copied while so engaged. adventure real one, distances traveled substantial, challenge cloistered monastic life considerable. Might thoughts have been way coping with an unnerving summer war? These many other are explored this expansive revealing microhistorical investigation.