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- Title
The Poeta Saxo at Paderborn: episcopal authority and Carolingian rule in late ninth-century Saxony.
- Authors
Rembold, Ingrid
- Abstract
This paper argues that the Poeta Saxo's epic poem about Charlemagne was composed at the bishopric of Paderborn as part of a wider literary programme that included both the Translatio sancti Liborii and the Vita sancti Liborii. Near the close of the ninth century, when Paderborn's renown and resources were at their lowest ebb, these three works articulated an image of episcopal authority, touted the pre-eminence of Paderborn, and made a bid for royal patronage.
- Subjects
CHARLEMAGNE, Emperor, 742-814; NINTH century; AUTHORITY in religion; HISTORY of Saxony, Germany, to 1423; POETA Saxo, fl. 9th century; CATHOLIC Church. Archdiocese of Paderborn (Germany)
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2013, Vol 21, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12014