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Cover 1 Half title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 List of figures 10 List of contributors 11 List of abbreviations 13 Preface 17 Introduction: cultural memory and the resources of the past 19 Part I Learning Empire 31 1 Creating cultural resources for Carolingian rule: historians of the Christian empire 33 2 Cassiodorus’ Historia tripartita before the earliest extant manuscripts 52 3 Politics and penance: transformations in the Carolingian perception of the conversion of Carloman (747) 69 4 Lessons in leadership: Constantine and Theodosius in Frechulf of Lisieux’s Histories 86 Part II The Biblical Past 103 5 Carolingian political discourse and the biblical past: Hraban, Dhuoda, Radbert 105 6 Biblical past and canonical present: the case of the Collectio 400 capitulorum 121 7 Divine law and imperial rule: the Carolingian reception of Junillus Africanus 136 8 Framing Ambrose in the resources of the past: the late antique and early medieval sources for a Carolingian portrait of Ambrose 153 Part III Changing Senses of the Other from the Fourth to the Eleventh Centuries 171 9 Pagans, rebels and Merovingians: otherness in the early Carolingian world 173 10 Who are the Philistines? Bede

Author

Clemens Gantner, Rosamond McKitterick and Sven Meeder

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EN