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• Illo Humphrey, PhD (2004) | HDR (2014) | Université Paris-X Nanterre • • Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist | Concert-Baritone | Trilingual simultaneous Interpreter (French - English - Deutsch) • • Associate Researcher | EA-4395 CLARE – LaPRIL | Université Bordeaux Montaigne | 33607 Pessac | France • • https://u-bordeaux3.academia.edu/IlloHumphrey • • Founder and President of the Bibliothèque Interdiscipllinaire de Recherche Européenne (La B.I.R.E.) • • Founder and Director of the Colloquia Aquitana (Annual colloquium of pluridisciplinary Mediaeval Studies) • • Illo Humphrey | PhD | HDR | Pre-Carolingian, Carolingian, and Post-Carolingian Iconography | 13 Images | Academia.edu | 20-VIII-2023 • • (1) Mosaico | Basilica San Vitale di Ravenna | Emilia-Romagna | Italia | VI s. • • Giustiniano I e il suo seguito da soldati, funzionari e sacerdoti • • (2) Civici Musei di Brescia, Italia • • Ivory Consular Diptych of Boethius’ Father †487 CE | Interior • • http://www.turismobrescia.it/en/punto-d-interesse/boethius-diptych • • Dimensions : 350 mm x 126 + 126 ® mm • • (3) Civici Musei di Brescia, Italia • • Ivory Consular Diptych of Boethius’ Father †487 CE | Exterior • • Dimensions: 350 mm x 126 + 126 ® mm • • Christian Miniatures | 7th c. | Left: Resurrection of Lazarus [John XI: 43-44] | Right: St. Jerome • St. Augustin • St. Gregory • • (4) Monza | Museo e Tesoro del Duomo | Dittico del poeta e della musa | VI s. dc • • Officina tardo-romana, Dittico del poeta e della musa | VI s. • • (Late Roman workshop, Diptych of the Poet and the Muse | 6th c.) • (5) Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek | Classik 5 | f. 2v | Saint-Martin de Tours | 9th c., ca. 844 • • Boethii De institutione arithmetica libri duo • • (6) Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek | Class. 5 | f. 9v | Saint-Martin de Tours | ca. 844 • • Boethii De institutione arithmetica libri duo • • (7) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds latin 1, in-folio, f. 215v • • http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8455903b/f438.image • • http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ead.html?id=FRBNFEAD000008447 • • Bible of Vivianus | 1st Bible of Charles II « The Bald » • Frontispice of the Psalter • • Origin: Saint-Martin de Tours • Beneficiary: Charles II The Bald • Date: ca. 845-846 • • (8) Cambridge-University-Library-Ii.3.12 | f. 61v | ca. 1130 • • http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/cambridge\_illuminations/captions.htm • • Boethii De institutione arithmetica libri duo | Boethii De institutione musica libri quinque • • BOETHIUS | Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος | Πλάτων | Νικόμαχος ὁ Γερασηνός • Origin: Canterbury, England, Cathedral Priory of Christ Church, ca. 1130 • • (9) Strasbourg, France | Bibliothèque Alsatique du Crédit Mutuel • • (34, rue du Wacken | F-67913 Strasbourg cedex) • • http://www.bacm.creditmutuel.fr/fr/hortus.html • • Hortus Deliciarum (1160-1195) | by Herradis Landsbergensis (*ca. 1125 - †1195) | Origin: Hohenburg, Alsace, France • • (10) Leipzig | Universitätsbibliothek, Ms 1253 | f. 3r | 13th c. (1150-1200) • • http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/?xdbdtdn!%22obj%2031570033%22&dmode=doc#|4 • • Boethius: Consolatio philosophiæ | Liber Primus • • Origin: Pegau [?], Landkreis Leipzig | D-04523 | Zisterzienserkloster St. Maria, Altzelle [?], D-01683 Nossen • • © Photo: Dr. Monica Linder | January 2004 • • (11) Wien | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek | Codex 2554 | f. 1v | Origin: Paris | ca. 1215-1250 | Artist unknown • • Bible moralisée | Format in-quarto: 344 mm x 260 mm • • (Absolute proportion: 1 1,3230769230769230769 | slightly less than the interval of the perfect 4th: 1 to 1,333333333333) • • (12) Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale « Vittorio Emanuele III » • • Ms. V A 14, s. XIV, f. 47r • • Boethii De institutione arythmetica libri duo [sic]: f. 1r-44v • • De institutione musica libri quinque: f. 49v-109v • • Libellus coelorum siue planetarum et siderum musica: f. 110r-119v • • Isidori Hispalensis Etymologiarum "Quid hic inquam quis est...": f.120r-122v • • (13) Glasgow University Library | MS Hunter 374 (V.1.11) | Origin: Italy | 1385 | f. 4r • • Boethii De Consolatio Philosophiae cvm Commento • • http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detail\_c.cfm?ID=35251 • • IH | ih | PhD | HDR | Explicit •
Rome on the Borders Visual Cultures During the Carolingian Transition, edd. Chiara Bordino, Chiara Croci & Vedran Sulovsky, in CONVIVIUM. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean, 2020
and the Furtherance of Romanness in the Late Carolingian Age – The themes of Romanness and sacred royalty are here investigated by examining the visual and verbal rhetoric that characterizes the decorative and versifying programmes of some of the most lavish liturgical codices dedicated to King Charles the Bald. In particular, the study calls attention to the possible identification of John Scottus Eriugena as the author of the verses in the Bible of San Paolo fuori le mura. Besides showing how Eriugena enriched the traditional theme of sacred royalty with sapiential, philosophical, and cosmological motifs, the study highlights the Irish thinker’s centrality in the strategy to promote the image of Charles in supporting the Frankish king’s candidacy for the imperial crown. As part of this strategy, the gift of the San Paolo Bible to the pope, possibly on the occasion of Charles the Bald’s coronation in Rome in 875, entailed the success of the rhetoric of Romanness and sacred royalty promoted by late Carolingian culture into the same religious and historical centre that inspired those rhetorical themes.
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Art, Devotion, and the Utility of Sight in the Carolingian Church
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Art, Devotion, and the Utility of Sight in the Carolingian Church This thesis is an exploration of Carolingian art within the context of religious devotion. The second chapter investigates the theoretical aspects related to the use of images by examining historical sources. These texts offer insight both into the types of anxieties images raised as well as contemporary attempts to reconcile these concerns. In order to determine how these theories were put into practice, the third chapter considers the manners in which the visual experience was orchestrated. To do so, shrines and reliquaries, as well as textual accounts describing encounters with them, are used to explore the messages that religious art conveyed and the means by which they did so. The fourth chapter focuses on the figure of the maker of sacred art. The theories of religious art and implementation of them, as discussed in Chapters II and III, fundamentally relied on the craftsman who fashioned them.
Chazelle Crucified God in the Carolingian Era review
Studies in Iconography, 2003
In Carolingian verbal and visual representations of Christ on the cross, Chazelle has a wonderful subject: the Crucifixion is a central Christian event; the Carolingians are central to medieval and Western culture; and the authors (including Alcuin, Hrabanus Maurus, John the Scot, and Hincmar) and works of art (e.g., the Utrecht Psalter and the Drogo Sacramentary) that are Chazelle's focus are central to Carolingian culture. Nor is it easy to imagine any current scholar better qualified than Chazelle to undertake this exceptionally rich project, which grows out of a Yale dissertation co-advised by the church historian Jaroslav Pelikan and the art historian Walter Cahn. Despite these origins, Chazelle's book is no lightly revised doctoral dissertation; it is an entirely new work of a mature scholar. Chazelle's method is straightforward, probably a good idea given the amount, range, and complexity of her material; she proceeds chronologically and treats texts and images separately. The first chapter provides a useful introduction to the book, laying out its methodological premises and scope and providing a succinct, clear, and very helpful account of the ways in which the Crucifixion was understood by Western theologians before the ninth century, ideas that formed the basis for Carolingian discussions. Chapters two and four through six constitute a chronolog ical account of Carolingian texts discussing the Crucifixion. The subject of the second chapter is Christological inquiry at the court of Charlemagne, emphasizing the writings of Alcuin, the Libri Carolini (LC), and the Carolingian debate about adoptionism; chapter four carries the story through the middle of the ninth century, concentrating on exegesis of the Passion and the epistle to the Hebrews and on the Carolingian liturgy and its commentaries; while chapters five and six discuss in detail the role the understanding of Christ's death played in the Carolingian debates on predestination and the Eucharist. These textual analyses are occasionally inter rupted by brief discussions of works of art (notably Theodulf s chapel at Germigny des-Prés and the prayer book of Charles the Bald), but the bulk of the book's attention to images is found in two separate chapters. Chapter three, on the earlier Carolingian period, discusses the Gellone Sacramentary and Hrabanus Maurus's astounding collection of carmina figurata, In honorem sanctae crucis. Chapter
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2003
For half-a-century Henry Chadwick has been contributing to our knowledge of early Christian history, covering an immensely wide range of subjects from Priscillian of Avila to Boethius, and Early Christianity and the classical tradition to Augustine of Hippo, to say nothing of his translations of Origen, Augustine and the Sentences of Sextus. It would be tempting to present the book under review as summing up a lifetime's scholarship, were it not that Chadwick's apparently inexhaustible energy may already have impelled him to the composition of yet another major work. Nevertheless, one may reasonably regard the present volume as a crowning, if not necessarily a final, achievement. The first thing which must strike any reader is the immense range and depth of the author's scholarship. He covers a period of six hundred years with no diminution of information, or easy generalisations. As the history proceeds and the evidence becomes more plentiful, so does the narrative. Particularly impressive are the descriptions of the theological complications in the issues of the Trinitarian and Christological controversies. Free from the prejudices which marked some scholars of an earlier generation, for whom Arians, Nestorians and Monophysites were heretics, and bad, Chadwick brings out the complex nature of the formulae to which the ordinary episcopal voter, with no particular theological expertise, was asked to agree at the various councils. It is no wonder that so many looked wistfully back to the first Nicene creed as one that needed no further elaboration, especially when, as Chadwick observers, ' in Christian history … the most passionate disputes have been, and were in the fourth century, between those who stood very close to one another. The issues were too often logomachies ' (p. 226). It is also salutary to be reminded that an orthodox hero like Athanasius 'had a blighted reputation for being a man of violence ' (p. 258) and that 'there have been few heretics who have not claimed the authority of scripture ' (p. 290). The style of the narrator is clear, enlivened by occasional colloquialisms and modern parallels. In the Diocletianic persecution, 'the see of Carthage turned out to be an exceedingly hot seat … Some bishops '' moonlighted '' with secular jobs ' (p. 149). It is startling to have St Cyprian's ecclesiology expressed in the form : ' The local church is a microcosm of the universal Church, the very spouse of Christ. She does not sleep around ' (p. 154), and to be told that Gregory the Great's ' most time-consuming duty was to be executive president of a large investment corporation ' (p. 661). There are copious references to original sources within the body of the text and (relatively rare) footnotes, indicating modern critical editions or discussions of debatable points. The long bibliography of modern secondary writings (pp. 698-713) makes clear the quantity and quality of work produced in the last fifty years. There has never been a better time to learn about early church history. Given the length of Chadwick's book and the thoroughness of his treatment, it is difficult to point to any particularly dominating themes. One already has been indicated : his fairness-he seeks to give every individual a hearing, and not to denounce those who, in the course of history, have been found to have chosen the wrong side. He does not push his own religious convictions: at the beginning of the book Jesus Christ is 'a charismatic prophet from Galilee ' (p.