Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe
underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war
broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men
and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption
and collapse of their world.
Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions,
Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The
Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and
immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of
this formative period of European history than the one found in
standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and
complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had
lost its way.
This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status
of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century.
Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the
political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a
variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and
archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying
saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's
journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain
constitutional future.
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