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Epitaph for an Era - Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World (Hardcover)
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Epitaph for an Era - Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World (Hardcover)
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Wala, abbot of Corbie, played a major role in the rebellions
against Emperor Louis the Pious, especially in 830, for which he
was exiled. Radbert defended his beloved abbot, known to his monks
as Arsenius, against accusations of infidelity in an 'epitaph'
(funeral oration), composed as a two-book conversation between
himself and other monks of Corbie. Whereas the restrained first
book of Radbert's Epitaphium Arsenii was written not long after
Wala's death in 836, the polemical second book was added some
twenty years later. This outspoken sequel covers the early 830s,
yet it mostly addresses the political issues of the 850s, as well
as Radbert's personal predicament. In Epitaph for an Era, an
absorbing study of this fascinating text, Mayke de Jong examines
the context of the Epitaphium's two books, the use of hindsight as
a rhetorical strategy, and the articulation of notions of the
public good in the mid-ninth century.
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