Prophecy and politics in the early Carolingian world / Andrew H. Sorber.
ISBN
9781003362739 (ebook)
1003362737
9781040020319 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040020313 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781040020296 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040020291 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781032422725 (hardback)
9781032424323 (paperback)
1003362737
9781040020319 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040020313 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781040020296 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040020291 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781032422725 (hardback)
9781032424323 (paperback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Tekbiçim Eser Adı
To avoid future peril
Yayın Bilgisi
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Apocalypse and the global Middle Ages
Genel Not
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia, 2019, under the title: To avoid future peril : signs, portents, and prophecy in the Carolingian world (ca. 771-840).
Özet, vb.
"Prophetic and Apocalyptic rhetoric play critical roles in the development and articulation of political authority in the reigns of Charlemagne (d. 814) and Louis the Pious (d. 840). The rhetorical authority derived from claims of receiving revelation, interpreting divine communication, speaking for God, and foreseeing coming calamity became a competitive medium through which individuals legitimized political behaviour, debated their long- and short-term aspirations, and struggled for political supremacy. Ranging from claims of revelations, dreams, and visions, to the adoption of rhetorical voices based on biblical prophets, to the interpretation of signs and portents, prophetic rhetoric enjoyed extensive experimentation and varied application throughout early medieval political discourse. Prophecy and Politics in the Early Carolingian World argues that claims of divine revelation, resistant to any attempts to monopolize them, provided a powerful means of speaking with authority for all participants in Frankish political discourse. This authority proved instrumental in the articulation and dismantling of effective Carolingian royal authority from 768 to 840. It introduces and reinterprets early Carolingian political discourse and intellectual activity, as well the centrality of apocalypticism in the Carolingian period, by emphasizing prophecy, or revelation and authority, rather than prediction and calamity. Early Carolingian political discourse was a dialogue that took place across royal proclamations, legal statements, historical texts, visions, scriptural commentaries, and manifestations of the natural world, and in this dialogue, the ability to interpret God's will was as powerful as it was problematic"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
Authority __ Religious aspects.
Carolingians.
Prophecy.
Revelation.
Power (Social sciences) __ Europe __ History __ To 1500.
Political culture __ Europe __ History __ To 1500.
HISTORY / Medieval __ bisacsh
RELIGION / Christianity / History __ bisacsh
RELIGION / Eschatology __ bisacsh
Carolingians.
Prophecy.
Revelation.
Power (Social sciences) __ Europe __ History __ To 1500.
Political culture __ Europe __ History __ To 1500.
HISTORY / Medieval __ bisacsh
RELIGION / Christianity / History __ bisacsh
RELIGION / Eschatology __ bisacsh
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