IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 609: Carolingian Receptions of Augustine's Texts and Ideas
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Jesse Miika Johannes Keskiaho, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Matthieu Pignot, Institute of History, University of Warsaw |
| Paper 609-a | Using and Not Using Augustine to Think about the Soul by Alcuin and His Circle (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 609-b | Augustine's Notion of Worldly Rule and Its Influence on Carolingian Political Advice (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Political Thought |
| Paper 609-c | The Patristic Past and the Presence of the Fathers in Works by Paschasius Radbertus (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | Augustine was perhaps the most important of the fathers to Carolingian scholars. However, this high esteem can obscure the variety of Carolingian readings and uses of Augustine's works and ideas. At the same time, Augustine's ideas were not always identified or understood in ways that modern scholars of Augustine's thought might expect. By looking at the reception of Augustine's texts and ideas in three different domains of Carolingian learning, this session seeks to draw attention to the varied ways Carolingian scholars went about recognising Augustine's ideas and the creative ways they utilised them for their own ends. |