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Author Mayr-Harting, Henry.

Title Church and cosmos in early Ottonian Germany : the view from Cologne / Henry Mayr-Harting
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary Henry Mayr-Harting explores the intellectual culture underpinning Ottonian rule in 10th-century Germany, as seen through a surviving account of the life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (935-65)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and indexes
Subject Bruno, Saint, Archbishop of Cologne, 925?-965.
SUBJECT Bruno, Saint, Archbishop of Cologne, 925?-965 fast
Ruotger <von Köln> swd
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus. swd
Brun Köln, Erzbischof, I. swd
Otto Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser, I. swd
Vita Brunonis archiepiscopi Coloniensis. swd
De institutione arithmetica. swd
Subject HISTORY.
Intellectual life
Politics and government
Herrschaft
Geistesleben
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Platonisme.
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Otto I, 936-973. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054531
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Otto I, 936-973. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061586
Cologne (Electorate) -- Intellectual life
Cologne (Electorate) -- Politics and government
Subject Europe -- Cologne (Electorate)
Europe -- Holy Roman Empire
Germany
Deutschland
Keulen (stad)
Köln <Diözese>
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435621404
1435621409
0191705756
9780191705755