Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany
The View from Cologne
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 October 2007
- ISBN 9780199210718
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 223x145x24 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 haltones & 1 map 0
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Short description:
Henry Mayr-Harting explores the intellectual culture underpinning Ottonian rule in tenth-century Germany, as seen through a surviving account of the life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (935-65). Written shortly after Bruno's death by the otherwise obscure monk Ruotger, this biography examines the political and scholarly achievements of one of the most distinguished men in the tenth-century West. Using this evidence, along with surviving annotations and glosses in Cologne manuscripts, this book sheds important new light on the intellectual life of this period.
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Integrating the brilliant biography of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (953-65) and brother of Emperor Otto I, by the otherwise obscure monk Ruotger, with the intellectual culture of Cologne Cathedral, this is a study of actual politics in conjunction with Ottonian ruler ethic. Our knowledge of Cologne intellectual activity in the period, apart from Ruotger, must be pieced together mainly from marginal annotations and glosses in surviving Cologne manuscripts, showing how and with what concerns some of the most important books of the Latin West were read in Bruno's and Ruotger's Cologne. These include Pope Gregory the Great's Letters, Prudentius's Psychomachia, Boethius's Arithmetic, and Martianus Capella's Marriage of Philology and Mercury. The writing in the margins of the manuscripts, besides enlarging our picture of thinking in Cologne in itself, can be drawn into comparison with the outlook of Ruotger.
Exploring how distinctive Cologne was, compared with other centres, Henry Mayr-Harting brings out an unexpectedly strong thread of Platonism in the tenth-century intellect. The book includes a critical edition of probably the earliest surviving, and hitherto unpublished, set of glosses to Boethius's Arithmetic, with an extensive study of their content.
[Mayr-Harting's] elucidations of the texts of Gregory, Boethius, Prudentius, and Capella areinvaluable.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Bruno of Cologne and Ruotger's Life of Bruno
Methods of this Study
Ruotger, Bruno and the Fathers
Prudentius
The Liberal Arts at Cologne
Arithmetic, Platonism and Calculation in Bruno's and Ruotger's Cologne
Cologne and Martianus Capella
Edition of the Glosses to Boethius's Arithmetic in Cologne Ms. 186
