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Charlemagne and Rome: Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I de Joanna Story

Charlemagne and Rome: Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I: Medieval History and Archaeology

Autor Joanna Story
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2023

Publicul format din studenți la istorie medievală, cercetători în domeniul epigrafiei și practicieni ai arheologiei creștine va găsi în Charlemagne and Rome o analiză exhaustivă a politicii culturale din epoca carolingiană. Lucrarea semnată de Joanna Story depășește granițele unei simple descrieri de monument, oferind o „biografie de obiect” riguroasă, centrată pe epitaful Papei Adrian I. Putem afirma că această inscripție, realizată din piatră neagră de Aachen și amplasată în Bazilica Sfântul Petru, nu este doar un omagiu funerar, ci un veritabil manifest imperial care proclamă autoritatea francă asupra Romei.

Merită menționat modul în care autoarea integrează date tehnice din geologie și paleografie cu analiza literară a versurilor compuse de Alcuin din York. Găsim în această carte o documentare metodică a modului în care arta carolingiană a reciclat simbolismul imperial roman pentru a legitima o nouă putere politică. Comparabil cu Rome in the Ninth Century de John Osborne în ceea ce privește rigoarea analizei culturii materiale, volumul de față este însă mult mai focalizat pe tranziția dintre antichitatea târzie și Renașterea carolingiană, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra supraviețuirii obiectelor de cult în timpul reconstrucțiilor masive ale bazilicii sub Bramante sau Michelangelo.

Această monografie se înscrie natural în opera autoarei, continuând temele explorate în Carolingian Connections sau Old Saint Peter's, Rome. Dacă lucrările anterioare stabileau contextul general al legăturilor anglo-saxone și carolingiene, Charlemagne and Rome rafinează aceste concepte printr-un studiu de caz aplicat, demonstrând cum un singur obiect poate sintetiza ambițiile unui imperiu aflat în plină ascensiune.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199206346
ISBN-10: 0199206341
Pagini: 428
Ilustrații: numerous colour and black and white figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 195 x 252 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.12 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Medieval History and Archaeology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care Carol cel Mare a utilizat arta și scrierea pentru a-și consolida statutul imperial. Este o recomandare esențială pentru cei interesați de istoria Romei și a papalității, oferind dovezi concrete despre cum un obiect de artă supraviețuiește timp de un mileniu, devenind un martor tăcut al transformărilor arhitecturale și politice ale Europei, de la Aachen până la inima Vaticanului.

Despre autor

Joanna Story este profesor de istorie medievală timpurie la Universitatea din Leicester, fiind recunoscută pentru abordările sale interdisciplinare care îmbină istoria cu arheologia. Specialistă în epoca lui Carol cel Mare, cercetările sale se concentrează pe contactele culturale dintre Anglia anglo-saxonă și Europa continentală, cu un interes deosebit pentru manuscrise și inscripții. Expertiza sa în studiul legăturilor dintre Anglia și Roma este reflectată în numeroasele sale publicații, printre care se numără și studii fundamentale despre Bazilica Sfântul Petru și influența anglo-saxonă asupra lumii carolingiene.

Descriere

Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemorating Pope Hadrian I who died in Rome at Christmas 795. Commissioned by Charlemagne, composed by Alcuin of York, and cut from black stone quarried close to the king's new capital at Aachen in the heart of the Frankish kingdom, it was carried to Rome and set over the tomb of the pope in the south transept of St Peter's basilica not long before Charlemagne's imperial coronation in the basilica on Christmas Day 800. A masterpiece of Carolingian art, Hadrian's epitaph was also a manifesto of empire demanding perpetual commemoration for the king amid St Peter's cult. In script, stone, and verse, it proclaimed Frankish mastery of the art and power of the written word, and claimed the cultural inheritance of imperial and papal Rome, recast for a contemporary, early medieval audience. Pope Hadrian's epitaph was treasured through time and was one of only a few decorative objects translated from the late antique basilica of St Peter's into the new structure, the construction of which dominated and defined the early modern Renaissance. Understood then as precious evidence of the antiquity of imperial affection for the papacy, Charlemagne's epitaph for Pope Hadrian I was preserved as the old basilica was destroyed and carefully redisplayed in the portico of the new church, where it can be seen today. Using a very wide range of sources and methods, from art history, epigraphy, palaeography, geology, archaeology, and architectural history, as well as close reading of contemporary texts in prose and verse, this book presents a detailed 'object biography', contextualising Hadrian's epitaph in its historical and physical setting at St Peter's over eight hundred years, from its creation in the late eighth century during the Carolingian Renaissance through to the early modern Renaissance of Bramante, Michelangelo, and Maderno.

Recenzii

Story offers a stimulating work that, one hopes, will serve to incite others to think more critically and at length about the epigraphic cultures of the Latin-speaking West in Late Antiquity and its relationship to book production and historical memory. Her volume is magnificently illustrated and thoughtfully arranged.
This is an impressive work that serves as an important contribution to our knowledge of Carolingian culture and politics. This work will interest Carolingian specialists and those seeking to learn about the history of Saint Peter's Basilica and the papacy. It shows the value of considering both the physical form and content of texts, and it can serve as a model for other object biographies by demonstrating the wealth of insights that can stem from the focus on a single artifact.
Joanna Story's investigation is much more than a simple biography of a funerary inscription. [...] From an academic and methodological perspective, this multi-and even transdisciplinary investigation demonstrates the various ways in which a single object can be examined. It not only sheds new light on the relationship between the Franks and Rome, demonstrating the multidimensional nature of these ties, but also immerses the reader in the broader cultural history of Frankish society at the end of the 8th century.
Story has meticulously set the epitaph of Pope Hadrian I in its historical, textual, paleographic, and cultural context. The volume is richly illustrated with numerous color figures that enhance the arguments presented. Oxford UniversityPress deserves commendation for its exceptional production of this volume. Scholars interested in Charlemagne's reign, Carolingian culture, and palaeography will find this text an invaluable resource.
Charlemagne and Rome's examination of the epitaph of Hadrian shows just what rich possibilities lie in taking a medieval object and carefully, patiently, diligently working through the context in which that object was designed, seen, and used. When done well, as is emphatically the case here, it is remarkable just how gracefully such an approach can open new vistas on a familiar historical moment.
In any case, the next time you are going to the Vatican in Rome, look up this book before you cross the threshold of St. Peter's Basilica. You will learn that the epitaph in the portico is such an amazing nexus of geological, ancient, medieval, and early modern history that you might linger, not bothering to enter the basilica at all.
Story' book provides a significant example of an interdisciplinary methodological approach applied to a quite problematic object: only an extensive use of all available sources allowed her to highlight the cultural context in which the epitaph was conceived, created, and then displayed.

Notă biografică

Joanna Story studied History and Archaeology at Durham University and is a professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester where she has worked since 1996. She specialises in the period c. AD 600-900, and in the material culture of the written word in manuscript and epigraphic form. Her research and publications are characterised by a highly interdisciplinary approach to evidence, combining data derived from text, images, and physical remains surviving from the early medieval European past and deploying traditional historical techniques alongside methods used in archaeology and physical sciences.