Building, Enacting and Embodying Romanitas: the Throne of Charlemagne
Allan Doig
This paper will explore the development of aspects ideological underpinning Charlemagne’s Renovatio Romani Imperii. The object under inspection be Charlemagne’s throne in Basilica at Aachen, and attention extend to origin its materials, artistic, architectural and ceremonial context, what it has to tell us about person office King-Emperor. Romanitas, this sense, is a set ideals projected backwards onto Christian Roman Empire remnants. vision identity was made visible in cultural manifestations from daily rituals art architecture. Elements all these had survived gradual collapse of institutions Western Empire. narrative founding provided by Eusebius, explicitly emulated continued by Gregory Tours his History Franks, which he records the elements legacy that Merovingian Gaul end 6th century. With Merovingian royal power exhausted, Pippinids took inheritance fragments combination with newly acquired fragments, cultural spolia you might say, combined them within ecclesiastical intellectual disciplines from “Rome” itself, create renewed bricolage. show how reconstituted romanitas was convincing enough mocked (defensively), yet grudgingly admired, finally recognised Emperor in the other “New Rome”.
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