Download PDF | [Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 3] Catherine Cubitt - Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages_ The Proceedings of the First Alcuin Conference, Brepols, 2003.
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Preface
This volume results from a conference held in July 1998 on ‘Alcuin and Court Culture’, the first in a regular series held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York intended to commemorate Alcuin in his home town. A number of early medievalists at the University—myself, Elizabeth Tyler, Sid Bradley, and the late Jim Lang—felt that it was fully time that York’s most illustrious and influential son was remembered in the city where he grew up and to which he remained deeply attached even after his final departure for the Carolingian court.
To honour Alcuin as he deserved, conferences on wide-ranging topics, important themes in the study of the early Middle Ages, were appropriate, and the first to be chosen was the topic of court culture, a subject of direct relevance to the life of Alcuin. The organizers wished to bring together a number of disciplines as a suitable way to remember Alcuin’s own wide-ranging interests and to reflect the commitment to interdisciplinary research on the part of the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of York. The papers brought together here cover aspects of court culture—art history, literature, historical and archaeological approaches—in Europe and in Byzantium, chiefly focussing on the eighth and ninth centuries.
The papers were intended to reflect broadly Alcuin’s own age and milieu but were not too overly constrained by these bounds. We hoped that the range of papers would enable readers to make comparisons and connections between the different regions studied. All the articles in this volume were first given as conference papers in York with the exception of Lyn Rodley’s ‘The Byzantine Court and Byzantine Art’, which was specially commissioned to extend the range of the volume, and Donald Bullough’s study of Alcuin’s career between 793 and 796, his period of service at the Carolingian court (taken from Professor Bullough’s forthcoming monograph). Professor Bullough gave the keynote address at the conference on Charlemagne’s court library; it was a great honour to have so distinguished an Alcuin scholar inaugurate the conference in this way.
His death, after this volume went to press, is an irreparable loss to early medieval studies. His lively presence, trenchant but always generous criticism, and unrivalled erudition which made a memorable contribution to the conference itself will be sorely missed. Catherine Cubitt
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