Defining doctrine in the Carolingian period: The contents and context of Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 108
Sven Meeder
The most concrete expression of the revival learning associated with 'Carolingian Renaissance' is enormous increase in book production ninth century. thousands surviving ninth-century manuscripts are substantial witnesses to that revival. image they convey, however, fragmented and multi-faceted, both because represent only a fraction all books produced century, every manuscript reflects particular conditions, time place its individual choices made by compilers, copyists decorators. This varied one manifestation diversity characterizing Carolingian reform efforts, which modern scholars have drawn attention recent decades.2 To understand local aspects and, consequently, full scale reforms, we must study facilitated them detail. Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 108 modest compendium patristic texts, containing six mainly doctrinal works: Edictum de recta fide emperor Justinian (fos. lr47V),3 Pelagian Libellus