Chapter «Stilo... memoriaeque mandavi»: Two and a Half Conspiracies. Auctors, Actors, Confessions, Records, and Models

Chapter «Stilo... memoriaeque mandavi»: Two and a Half Conspiracies. Auctors, Actors, Confessions, Records, and Models

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Conspiracies frustrate contemporaries, historiographers, and historians. This article explores roles, focalization, and confession in three conspiracies related to Italy, from the 6th, 4th, and 9th centuries respectively. The protagonists include Boethius, Silvanus, and Theodulf of Orléans. The mai...

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Main Author: Shanzer, Danuta (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
Series:Reti Medievali E-Book
Subjects:
History
Early Middle Ages
Late Antiquity
Louis the Pious
Theodulf of Orléans
Boethius
Receptions
Consolation of Philosophy
Ammianus Marcellinus
Silvanus
Revolt of Bernard of Italy (817)
Confession
Conspiracies
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Summary:Conspiracies frustrate contemporaries, historiographers, and historians. This article explores roles, focalization, and confession in three conspiracies related to Italy, from the 6th, 4th, and 9th centuries respectively. The protagonists include Boethius, Silvanus, and Theodulf of Orléans. The main contribution is a philological and historiographical re-evaluation of Theodulf's role in the revolt of Bernard of Italy against Louis the Pious (817/18), arguing that Theodulf advised Louis about the punishment of the conspirators. Boethius first emerges as a historico-political exemplum (though his Cons.) in Modoin's rescriptum (Theodulf, C. 73 [820/21]).
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (27 p.)
ISBN:978-88-5518-664-3.08
9788855186643
Access:Open Access

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