UID:
almahu_9949747529102882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 273 pages).
ISBN:
9781003362739
,
1003362737
,
9781040020296
,
1040020291
,
9781040020319
,
1040020313
Series Statement:
Apocalypse and the global Middle Ages
Uniform Title:
To avoid future peril
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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).
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sorber, Andrew H., 1986- Prophecy and politics in the early Carolingian world Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032422725
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003362739
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003362739
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