The Nature of Things
Hans Hummer
This chapter turns to conceptions of kinship in the Carolingian Empire, where political order was practically City God on earth. It finds Hrabanus Maurus’s <italic>De rerum naturis</italic>, “On Natures Things,” a cognate sociology which treated as manifestation deeper mystical forms divine sociality binding cosmos. examines two lay authors, Dhuoda and Nithard, demonstrate that laypeople essentially shared ontological outlook clerics like Hrabanus. Dhuoda’s handbook her son William ruminates dialectic worldly spiritual fathers, showing conception family bound cosmological vision families stretched from earth heaven were embedded wider animated by “fraternal love.” Similarly, Nithard’s consciousness attached his saintly father Angilbert monastery St. Riquier, Nithard presided abbot.
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