Pieces of a puzzle: time and history in W alahfrid's Vademecum

The epoch of E mperor L ouis the P ious was a time of crisis, correction and self‐reflection. Intellectuals like the Reichenau scholar W alahfrid S trabo were requested to present models of identity. By using the resources of the R oman antique and late antique past they created compilations that helped to develop perspectives of political and social balance. W alahfrid found the idea of the equivalence of the ecclesia and imperium – which seems to have been important in the time of L ouis the P ious and C harles the B ald – in sources like the C odex‐calendar of 354 or the Chronica de VI aetatibus mundi, which he copied in his famous Vademecum .