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• Title:[Codex Carolinus. English.]
  Codex epistolaris Carolinus : letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791 / translated with an introduction and notes by Rosamond McKitterick, Dorine van Espolo, Richard Pollard, and Richard Price.
  
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• Variant Title:Letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:McKitterick, Rosamond, translator, editor.
  Espolo, Dorine van, translator, editor.
  Pollard, Richard Matthew, translator, editor.
  Price, Richard, 1934-2020 translator, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DC70.A1 C6513 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814.
  Charles Martel, approximately 688-741.
  Pepin, King of the Franks, -768.
  Carolingians--History--Sources.
  Popes--Correspondence.
  Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.
  Church and state--France--History--To 1500.
  Papacy--History--To 1309--Sources.
  Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria--Vienna.
  Franks--History--768-814--Sources.
  France--History--To 987--Sources.
  
• Genre/Form:Chirographa (Personal correspondence)
  
• Description:x, 532 pages : maps ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Translated texts for historians ; v. 77.
  
• Terms governing use:Current Copyright Fee: GBP25.00 0.
  
• Summary:The Codex epistolaris Carolinus preserves ninety-nine letters, dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Frankish king Charlemagne and his predecessors. The compilation was commissioned by Charlemagne in 791, but the sole surviving medieval manuscript of the letters was made at Cologne in the later ninth century and is now in Vienna (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 449). The headings or lemmata provided for each letter by the Frankish compilers in 791 and faithfully preserved in the codex, add a distinctive Frankish commentary on events in Rome and Italy in the second half of the eighth century. This book not only provides the first full English translation of the letters and lemmata in the Codex epistolaris Carolinus but also re-creates the original Carolingian order of presentation of the letters according to the manuscript. A substantial introduction discusses the historical significance of the collection, the compilation and contexts of the Vienna manuscript, especially the significance of the lemmata, the peculiarities of the Latin of the papal letters and the biblical citations, and the historical context of the letters themselves. The lemmata and letter translations are augmented with introductions to each letter and a comprehensive historical commentary and glossary.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-512) and index.
  Translated from the Latin.
  
• ISBN:9781800348714 (hbk.)
  1800348711 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Codex epistolaris Carolinus / Dorine van Espelo
  II. Codex epistolaris Carolinus: compilation and contexts / Dorine van Espelo
  1. late-eighth-century context of the compilation
  2. Letters and letter collections
  3. Preface
  4. mechanics of sending and receiving letters: the papal legates
  5. manuscript: Codex Vindobonensis 449 (ONB 449): dating, provenance, and codicological and palaeographical features
  6. 791 exemplar and the Cologne copy
  7. lemmata
  8. allusions and comparisons to Old Testament models
  III. Latin of the papal letters / Richard Price
  1. language and style of the Codex epistolaris Carolinus and their affinities with other papal documents / Richard Matthew Pollard
  2. biblical citations / Richard Matthew Pollard
  3. Latin grammar in the Codex epistolaris Carolinus / Richard Price
  IV. Franks and Italy, 739-791 / Rosamond McKitterick
  1. Introduction
  2. Competing political interests in Italy, 739-791
  3. Codex epistolaris Carolinus and the Liber pontificalis.