Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe

Taylor & Francis

Centered on the Carolingian age, this new volume of studies by John Contreni explores how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Latin Europe. Subjects covered include the consideration of the significance of numerical and scientific studies in the curriculum, Eriugena's early career in light of his Glossae divinae historiae, Carolingian biblical culture, a reading of Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Ezechiel, and a poem in the Anthologia Latina long ascribed to Octavian, the Roman emperor. > Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005. Centered in the Carolingian age, they explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. Several essays consider the significance of numerical and scientific studies in the Carolingian curriculum, including the impactA