THE PUBLIC PENANCE OF LOUIS THE PIOUS: A NEW EDITION OF THE <i>Episcoporum de poenitentia, quam Hludowicus imperator professus est, relatio Compendiensis</i> (833)
Courtney M. Booker
This article offers a new critical edition of the narrative that recounts, justifies, solemnizes, and defines consequences public penance Emperor Louis Pious in October, 833. Composed by an anonymous bishop on behalf his episcopal peers as their collective account decree proceedings, narrative, known since late nineteenth century title Episcoporum de poenitentia, quam Hludowicus imperator professus est, relatio Compendiensis, has long been believed to be extant only way its first printed from 1588. The recent discovery three early sixteenth-century manuscript witnesses allows for text, provides evidence suggests number editorial interventions during ninth century, accounting unlikely preservation. These refine our understanding Carolingian polemics intertextual dialogues treat nature Pious's reign inform remembrance.
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