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Roman Barbarians MedievalCultureandSociety GeneralEditor:MiriRubin Advisors:JeanDunbabinandRobertStacey Medieval Culture and Society provides a frame work for the study of an array of themes in the history of medieval Europe, including some which are looked at comparatively, and approaches them in the light of the new theoretical reflections. Thebooksinthisserieswillbeusefultostudents,toawiderangeofscholarsand tothegeneralreader.Writteninclearandelegantprose,theyconciselypresent newsourcesandtheirinterpretationandalsohighlightunderlyingmethodand theory. Publishedtitles JeanDunbabin CAPTIVITYANDIMPRISONMENTINMEDIEVALEUROPE,1000–1300 YitzhakHen ROMANBARBARIANS TheRoyalCourtandCultureintheEarlyMedievalWest ElisabethvanHouts MEMORYANDGENDERINMEDIEVALEUROPE PhillipSchofield PEASANTANDCOMMUNITYINMEDIEVALENGLAND,1200–1500 MedievalCultureandSocietySeries SeriesstandingorderISBN978–0–333–75058–2(Hardback) 978–0–333–80324–0(Paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standingorder.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetous attheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandthe ISBNquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS,England Roman Barbarians The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West Yitzhak Hen ©YitzhakHen2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-333-78665-9 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2007by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010 Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgrave MacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd. Macmillan(cid:2)isaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdom andothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropean Unionandothercountries. ISBN 978-0-333-78666-6 ISBN 978-0-230-59364-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-230-59364-0 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Hen,Yitzhak. Romanbarbarians:theroyalcourtandcultureintheearlyMedieval West/YitzhakHen. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Courtsandcourtiers“Intellectuallife“Europe“History“To1500. 2. Franks“Kingsandrulers“History. 3. Franks“Nobility“History. 4. Civilization,Medieval. 5. Europe“History“392(cid:3)814. I. Title. GT3520.H462007 940.1“dc22 2007023135 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 To Nadav This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofMaps ix Preface x ListofAbbreviations xii 1 Introduction:ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents 1 Thedimviewofearlymedievalculture 3 The survival of early medieval culture in modern historiography 16 Awordonthepatronageofculture 21 Anotherwordontheconcept‘culture’ 24 2 Adaptation:TheOstrogothicCourtofTheoderic theGreat 27 Theodericusilliteratus 33 Ostrogothicpast,Romanpresent 39 Romanpast,Gothicpresent 53 3 OutofAfrica:TheVandalCourtofThrasamund 59 TheculturalheritageofRomanNorthAfrica 67 KingThrasamundandthe‘VandalRenaissance’ 74 TheAnthologiaLatina 78 Dracontius 83 ThepeculiarcaseofFulgentiusofRuspe 87 RomanVandals 92 4 BeforeandAfter:TheFrankishCourtofChlotharIIand DagobertI 94 KingsandcultureinMerovingianGaul 97 Courtandcultureinseventh-centuryFrancia 100 TheMerovingiancourtschool 101 Cultureandmonasticism 106 Flirtingwithliturgy 111 vii viii Contents 5 MusicoftheHeart:TheUnusualCaseofKingSisebut 124 KingSisebut,virsapienset(cid:2)(cid:2)(cid:2)pietateplenissimus 128 Visigothicpoliticalideologyandthe‘IsidorianRenaissance’ 141 IsidoreofSevilleandthecultureofhistime 143 KingSisebut’s‘IsidorianRenaissance’ 149 6 PostcardsfromtheEdges:APreludetotheCarolingian Renaissance 153 Charlemagne’sLombardfather-in-law 153 ThedefiantcousinfromBavaria 159 ThesplendourofByzantium 166 Exorientelux? 172 7 Conclusion 177 SelectBibliography 181 Index 205 List of Maps 1 TheRomanEmpirec.300 2 2 Italyc.500 28 3 RavennainthetimeofTheoderictheGreat 34 4 VandalNorthAfrica 60 5 TheFrankishKingdomandneighbouringterritories 95 6 VisigothicSpain 125 ix
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