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Pieces of a puzzle: time and history in W alahfrid's Vademecum
Author(s) -
Corradini Richard
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/emed.12083
Subject(s) - antique , identity (music) , politics , history , balance (ability) , epoch (astronomy) , art , ancient history , political science , law , astronomy , aesthetics , physics , psychology , neuroscience , stars
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 .

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