The penitential state authority and atonement in the age of Louis the Pious, 814-840
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2008
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The penitential state
- Louis the Pious (778-840)
- A boy who became a king
- Adolescentia
- The conquest of Aachen
- Dynasty
- Scapegoats and rebels
- Intermezzo
- 833 and all that
- Restoration
- The last years
- Ninth-century narratives
- The court and its narratives
- The message from inside : annals
- Imperial imagery : Einhard
- A bishop's view : Thegan
- The corridors of power : the Astronomer
- Poetic praise : Ermold the Black
- With hindsight : Nithard on Louis the Pious
- Looking back in anger : Radbert on Wala
- Admonitio, correptio, increpatio
- Criticising rulers
- The watchman in the house of Israel
- The vocabulary of admonition and sin
- Royal admonition
- Admonition from beyond the grave
- From admonitio to increpatio
- The wages of sin (828-829)
- Scapegoats : Matfrid and Hugh
- Clades : the offended deity
- The winter assembly of 828-829
- Letters from the palace
- A penitential synod : Paris, 829
- Purity and danger (830-831)
- The reputation of the palace
- The one and only queen
- Sexual slander
- Purity and danger
- Rebellion and restoration
- Scandal and satisfaction (832-834)
- An unexpected visitor
- Debates on the Field of Lies
- Public sin and public penance
- The bishops argue their case
- The case against the bishops
- Some observations on 833 and ritual
- Turning the tables
- Epilogue: The penitential state after Louis the Pious.
