Paul the Deacon, Liber de Episcopis Mettensibus

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-90-429-2937-1
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 107 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: Dallas Medieval Texts and Tran

Paul the Deacon was undoubtedly one of the most prolific and gifted

scholars of the early medieval period. Working for different patrons,

first in his native Lombardy and then at the Frankish court, he left an

impressive literary legacy, including a six-volume History of Rome

and a History of the Lombards. All in all, Paul wrote more

history than any of his contemporaries. He composed the Liber de

episcopis Mettensibus around 784 at the behest of Angilram, bishop

of Metz and chief counselor of Charlemagne. The text has received

considerable attention from modern historians since it contains the

first genealogy of the Carolingian family, one that establishes Arnulf,

the seventh-century bishop of Metz, as Charlemagne’s forefather.

However, rather than being a simple work of royal propaganda, composed

to support and legitimize the Carolingians, who had usurped the throne

only thirty years earlier with Pippin III’s coup in 751, the text subtly

advances the prominent role of Metz within the Frankish kingdom.

The present volume offers a new Latin edition of the Liber,

including the late tenth-century interpolated section that both

transformed the text and ensured its transmission. It also provides its

first translation into a modern language. The introduction analyzes the

textual strategies and the political claims at play in the Liber

within the context of a reassessment of Angilram’s episcopacy (768–791)

in Metz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kempf, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie