Court and Emperor

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Court and Emperor in theVita Benedicti Anianensis
Some initial remarks
Rutger Kramer, FU Berlin kramerrutger_at_gmail.com
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http//www.hludowicus.eu
La productivité d'une crise Le règne de Louis
le Pieux (814-840) et la transformation de
l'Empire carolingien
Produktivität einer Krise Die Regierungszeit
Ludwigs des Frommen (814-840) und die
Transformation des karolingischen Imperium
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The Interdependence of Cloister and Court in the
Age of Louis the Pious
T.F.X. Noble, The Monastic Ideal as a Model for
Empire The Case of Louis the Pious, in Revue
Bénédictine, 86 (1976), pp. 235-250
or
The Imperial Ideal as a Model for Monasteries?
Case-studies of Aniane, Corbie and Ferrières
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The Interdependence of Cloister and Court in the
Age of Louis the Pious
- Representations of court, emperor and
politics
- Influence of courtly/worldly ideals
- Perceptions of monastic reforms?
in the

• Vita Benedicti Anianensis

• Vita Alcuini
• Vita Adalhardi

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Vita Benedicti Anianensis
- Written by Ardo of Aniane... - ...shortly after
the death of Benedict... - ...for the monks of
Inda, near Aachen.
Birth (750), upbringing - Pippin III Foundation
Aniane (782) - Charlemagne Growing influence
(782-814) - Louis the Pious, king Marmoutier to
Inda (814 816) Benedict at court (
821) - Louis the Pious, emperor
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Benedicts Transfers
Inda
Marmoutier
Aniane
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Vita Benedicti Anianensis
- Written by Ardo of Aniane... - ...shortly after
the death of Benedict... - ...for the monks of
Inda, near Aachen.
Birth (750), upbringing - Pippin III Foundation
Aniane (782) - Charlemagne Growing influence
(782-814) - Louis the Pious, king Marmoutier to
Inda (814 816) Benedict at court (
821) - Louis the Pious, emperor
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Questions, questions, questions...
Changing role of monasteries (and abbots)
during the reforms Relations between nobility
and clergy Role of Benedict, Alcuin, Adalhard
within the court circle Empire and
(sub)kingdoms. And Rome. Status of Aniane,
Ferrières, Corbie Monastic networks

• Intertextual references/Use of sources
• Reception of the Vitae
• Monastic ideals

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Ut valeat novos Divina semina iacto Rore poli
madidos Doctorum vomere cultus Cordis opimus
ager Centenus reddere fructus
Vita Benedicti, c. 436 (Attributed to Smaragdus
of St Mihiel)