Codex Bernensis 363 and Carolingian-Era Cultural Activity in Northern Italy
Cullen J. Chandler
Manuscript Bern 363 has been studied before for its transmission of the works Virgil and Horace as well late antique texts, links to Carolingian-era poetry circles, marginalia indicating Irish intellectual networks in ninth century. This article builds on previous studies, using some their methodologies explore other evidence manuscript provides. In doing so, it reveals arguably a quintessential example circumstances local activity Carolingian period – often linked but separate from high culture royal court ecclesiastical elite.
The Mediaeval Journal