Church and cosmos in early Ottonian Germany : the view from Cologne / Henry Mayr-Harting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayr-Harting, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--History--Otto I, 936-973.

Germany.

History.

Holy Roman Empire--History--Otto I, 936-973.

Holy Roman Empire.

Bruno, Saint, Archbishop of Cologne, 925?-965.

Bruno.

Cologne (Electorate)--Intellectual life.

Cologne (Electorate).

Cologne (Electorate)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xx, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Map of North-West Europe in the Time of Bruno of Cologne, 925-965 xxi

1 Bruno of Cologne and Ruotger's Life of Bruno 1

1.1 Ottonian Politics I: General 1

1.2 Ottonian Politics II: The Church 5

1.3 Ruotger's Life of Bruno I: Content 10

1.4 Ruotger's Life of Bruno II: Purpose and Sources 14

1.5 Ruotger, Bruno, and Lotharingia 22

1.6 Bruno, Lotharingia, and the Proposed Coronation of Hugh the Great 34

1.7 Bruno and Monastic Reform in Lotharingia 37

1.8 Bruno and the Ottonian Kingdom 43

1.9 Bruno and Architecture 49

1.10 Ruotger, Bruno, and the Liberal Arts 52

1.11 Ruotger, Bruno, and Greek 56

1.12 Learning and Rule 59

2 Methods of This Study 64

2.1 Annotations of Manuscripts 64

2.2 The Cologne Cathedral Library 70

3 Ruotger, Bruno, and the Fathers 78

3.1 Augustine 78

3.2 Gregory 89

Appendix Texts of the Marginalia in Cologne Ms. 94 (Gregory's Letters) 105

4 Prudentius 110

5 The Liberal Arts at Cologne 131

5.1 Cologne Cathedral School and Scholars 131

5.2 The Liberal Arts and the Good Arts 135

5.3 Legal Studies 137

5.4 The Heribert Period, 999-1021 139

5.5 Priscian 140

6 Arithmetic, Platonism, and Calculation in Bruno's and Ruotger's Cologne 145

6.1 The Glosses in Cologne Ms. 186 of Boethius' Arithmetic 145

6.2 Calculation and Platonist Arithmetic I 169

6.3 Calculation and Platonist Arithmetic II 174

6.4 A Carolingian Cologne Background 177

6.5 The Cologne Glosses in Their Wider Setting 179

7 Cologne and Martianus Capella 195

7.1 Early Medieval Interest in Martianus 195

7.2 The Cologne Glosses in Cologne Ms. 193 of Martianus 208

Appendix Texts of Principal Glosses to Martianus Capella Added to Cologne Ms. 193 at Cologne in the Tenth Century 226

Conclusion to Chapters 3-7: Ruler Ethic 230

8 Edition of the Glosses to Boethius' De Arithmetica in Cologne Ms. 186 234

8.1 The Manuscript in Cologne by c. 1000 234

8.2 Textual History 242

8.3 Text 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-292) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199210713

9780199210718

OCLC:

141484541