Mayke de Jong. Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World.
Eric J. Goldberg
Mayke de Jong is one of the leading medieval historians her generation. Her many publications explore how Christianity, monasticism, and late antique culture biblical exegesis profoundly shaped ideologies power authority in Carolingian Europe. In fascinating new Epitaph for an Era: Politics Rhetoric World, she investigates important yet relatively neglected ninth-century text—Radbert’s Epitaphium Arsenii or “Funeral Oration Wala Corbie” (hereafter EA)—as a window into its author his world. This book appeared simultaneously with Justin Lake’s valuable translation commentary EA Manchester Medieval Sources series. Radbert (d. 856/65), whose monastic name was Paschasius, monk at monastery Corbie, numerous theological works, protégé Corbie’s abbots Adalhard 826) 836), time abbot himself (in 843/44–849/53). the...
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