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- Title
Die unsichtbare Seite der karolingischen Welt. Umrisse einer Kriegergesellschaft im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert.
- Authors
Föller, Daniel
- Abstract
Although the Carolingian polity was one of the most aggressive and successful military agents of Early Mediaeval Europe, war does not seem to play a prominent role in recent conceptions of its political culture. Current research sees the political and the religious systems of the Carolingian world as converging, with ‚church‘ being the frame of reference. Within this discourse, the only person allowed to take military action was the king, while the lays were thought to fight only at his command and to follow an ideal of peaceful „secular sanctity“. Since nearly all of our sources are originating from this royal-ecclesiastical context, divergent discourses are difficult to be found. By analysing regulations from penitentials and synodal acts which served to suspend lays from society, this paper identifies the politically significant elements of a lay habitus. As it turns out, this habitus was predominantly martial, it therefore differs from the „secular sanctity“ defining lays. An alternative to the political discourse on ecclesia, which could be labelled as guerra-discourse, emerges and reveals the diversity of Carolingian political culture.
- Subjects
CAROLINGIANS; MEDIEVAL military history; HISTORY of the Catholic Church &; state
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7788/ha-2016-0102