TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kramer,Rutger
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire
T2  - The early medieval North Atlantic
SN  - 9789048532681
AV  - DC74 .K73 2019
U1  - 944/.014 23
KW  - Louis
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - fast
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Carolingians
KW  - Authority
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - History
KW  - Italy
KW  - To 1500
KW  - France
KW  - 476-1268
KW  - To 987
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-273) and index; Open Access
N2  - "By the early ninth century, the responsibility for a series of social, religious and political transformations had become an integral part of running the Carolingian empire. This became especially clear when, in 813/4, Louis the Pious and his court seized the momentum generated by their predecessors and broadened the scope of these reforms ever further. These reformers knew they represented a movement greater than the sum of its parts; the interdependence between those wielding imperial authority and those bearing responsibility for ecclesiastical reforms was driven by comprehensive, yet still surprisingly diverse expectations. Taking this diversity as a starting point, this book takes a fresh look at the optimistic first decades of the ninth century. Extrapolating from a series of detailed case studies rather than presenting a new grand narrative, it offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of personal improvement and institutional correctio, and shows the self-awareness of its main instigators as they pondered what it meant to be a good Christian in a good Christian empire"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66427/
ER  -