The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era
Subtitle: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521801034
Subjects: Christian theology; European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; History of religion; The historical Jesus; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History: World; Europe - General; History; Religion - Theology; Passion; Europe; Jesus Christ; Christianity - General; Theology; History / Europe / General; Jesus Christ--Passion--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500; Art, Carolingian; Christian art and symbolism; History of doctrines; Medieval, 500-1500; Middle Ages, 600-1500
First sentence: Between the late eighth and mid ninth century, a series of doctrinal conflicts brought Christ's passion into the focus of Carolingian theological discussion with an intensity that, like so many other phenomena of the era, was unprecedented in the medieval west.
Description: "The Carolingian 'renaissance' of the late eighth and ninth centuries, in what is now France, western Germany and northern Italy, transformed medieval European culture. At the same time the need to ensure that clergy, monks and laity embraced orthodox Christian doctrine was a fundamental driving force.".

"This book offers a new perspective on the period by examining transformations in a major current of thought as revealed through literature and artistic imagery: the doctrine of the passion and the crucified Christ.

The evidence of a range of literary sources is surveyed - liturgical texts, poetry, hagiography, letters, homilies, exegetical and moral tractates - but special attention is given to writings from the discussions and debates concerning artistic images, Adoptionism, predestination, and the eucharist.

Topics discussed in detail include the miniatures in the Gellone Sacramentary, Hrabanus Maurus's In honorem sanctae crucis, and later Carolingian crucifixion images such as the Utrecht Psalter illustration to Psalm 115, the miniature in the Drogo Sacramentary, and the ivory cover of the Periocpes of Henry II."--BOOK JACKET.