Humanistic aspects of Carolingian Court Poetry: Poetical Technique and Use of Sources in Paul the Deacon's Carmen X
Marco Conti
The object of this article is the analysis a typical specimen Carolingian court poetry, namely Paul Deacon’s Carmen X, which was written at very beginning so-called Renaissance in 781. In my opinion, Paul’s poem demonstrates once more how, on one hand, poetical technique and use classical sources and, other crucial influence environment Charlemagne’s that both makes poetry an extremely innovative literary form, strongly connects it with later phenomenon Humanism.
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