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Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms : Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries / Hope Williard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: CARMEN monographs and studiesPublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781802700343
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 871/.02 23
LOC classification:
  • PA8310.F7 Z935 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Friendly Patron and His Client -- Chapter 2. Episcopal and Lay Building Projects -- Chapter 3. Friendships with Merovingian Women -- Chapter 4. Writing for Royalty -- Chapter 5. Literary Friendships and Elite Identity -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Poems Cited -- General Index
Summary: This book explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth century Gaul—with a little help from his friends. Born in northern Italy, Venantius Fortunatus made his career writing for and about members of the Merovingian elite. Although he is no longer dismissed as an opportunistic poetaster who wrote undistinguished flattery for undeserving kings and aristocrats, his work remains unduly neglected. This book reframes Fortunatus as a writer uniquely suited to his times, a professional poet who addressed his contemporaries’ needs and wishes for the prestige and sophistication of Classical culture. His poems and letters enabled his aristocratic patrons to situate themselves in networks, which they made and maintained in order to navigate a post-imperial but not post-Roman world. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of friendship in the Middle Ages and offers a fresh look at the Frankish kingdoms of Merovingian Gaul.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Friendly Patron and His Client -- Chapter 2. Episcopal and Lay Building Projects -- Chapter 3. Friendships with Merovingian Women -- Chapter 4. Writing for Royalty -- Chapter 5. Literary Friendships and Elite Identity -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Poems Cited -- General Index

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This book explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth century Gaul—with a little help from his friends. Born in northern Italy, Venantius Fortunatus made his career writing for and about members of the Merovingian elite. Although he is no longer dismissed as an opportunistic poetaster who wrote undistinguished flattery for undeserving kings and aristocrats, his work remains unduly neglected. This book reframes Fortunatus as a writer uniquely suited to his times, a professional poet who addressed his contemporaries’ needs and wishes for the prestige and sophistication of Classical culture. His poems and letters enabled his aristocratic patrons to situate themselves in networks, which they made and maintained in order to navigate a post-imperial but not post-Roman world. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of friendship in the Middle Ages and offers a fresh look at the Frankish kingdoms of Merovingian Gaul.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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