EINHARD: THE SINNER AND THE SAINTS
Julia M. H. Smith
This essay offers a major reassessment of the career Einhard, biographer Charlemagne, and an analysis elite lay piety in Carolingian era. Einhard's life (c. 770–840) is discussed terms childhood, youth, marriage old age, with emphasis on significance his wife, Imma. His personal relationship relics which he had translated from Rome to Seligenstadt self-description as ‘sinner’ offer insights into religiosity. Einhard Imma are also situated broader discussion religious activities other married couples their day. Monastic foundations, relic collecting, Christian household morality close engagement Psalter characterise distinctive conjugal Christianity period.
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