Exalter le souverain à travers le texte et l’image : l’exemple des Carolingiens, et sa longue postérité
Jean‐Pierre Caillet
It is based on ancient Roman models that the exaltation of Carolingian sovereign develops, first under Charlemagne (cf. his Vita by Eginhard, and tomb in Aix) then especially Charles Bald several religious manuscripts which image king, mediator between God Christian people, now introduced). Under latter, moreover, iconography ivory throne probably offered to pope 875 suggests a supremacy monarch over pontiff himself. This claim, again accompanied reference Caesars Antiquity, was later be taken up other prestigious sovereigns (in particular Frederick II Hohenstaufen then, France, Louis XIV Napoleon Bonaparte).
Hortus artium medievalium