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

• Auteur principal: Shanzer, Danuta (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
• Collection: Reti Medievali E-Book 43
• Sujets: 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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Résumé

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]).

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (27 p.)

ISBN

978-88-5518-664-3.08
9788855186643

Accès

Open Access