For God, king and country: the personal and the public in the Epitaphium Arsenii
Michiel de Jong
Paschasius Radbertus's Epitaphium Arsenii is a lively and polemical dialogue that takes us straight into the controversies within court-connected competitive elite of 850s. The latter's membership, ecclesiastical as well secular, measured each other against yardstick public service, used failure to live up this means attack. On one hand, highly personal text, aimed at restricted audience; on other, it addresses shared values Carolingian political leadership. This was not world dominated by ‘the Church’, but in which many ‘churches’ (monasteries) their abbots actively participated arena.
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