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In This Modern Age: Medieval Studies in Honor of Paul Edward Dutton is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars of the Carolingian era specializing in history, art history, and literature. The volume is divided into five sections, which treat early medieval Latin literary and historiographical culture, images and objects, interpretations of natural phenomena, and the subject of nostalgia. Reflecting Dutton's pathbreaking work, the contributions all evince the great impact of his teaching and erudition over the past thirty years since the publication of his seminal books Carolingian Civilization: A Reader (1993), The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire (1994), The Poetry and Paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald (with Herbert L. Kessler) (1997), Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard (1998), Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (2004), together with his many influential articles. This body of highly distinctive, stimulating, and evocative scholarship has fundamentally transformed Carolingian studies, inspiring younger scholars to enter the field and encouraging established scholars to develop it in new directions.
The essays in this volume individually pay tribute to Dutton in their illumination of diverse aspects of Carolingian intellectual, textual, and visual culture, with its famously idiosyncratic revival of Christian-Roman learning, aesthetics, and ideas. Gathered together, they offer an expression of gratitude for the risks that he took and the generosity that he has always shown.
Contents
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Introduction — Courtney M. Booker and Anne A. Latowsky
Part I. PERICULOSA
The Wrong Kind of Flattery: Critique and Praise in Walahfrid Strabo's De imagine Tetrici — Andrew J. Romig
Authority and Christology in Dhuoda's Manual — Geoffrey Koziol
The Two Sorrows of Nithard — Courtney M. Booker
Dreaming of Saint Germain: Violence, Visions, and Holy Vengeance in the Translatio sancti Germani Parisiensis — Matthew Bryan Gillis
Part II. CLASSICA
Ghosts of Pliny the Younger in Einhard's Translation and Miracles of Marcellinus and Peter — Anne A. Latowsky
Virgil the Fabricator in the Epitaphium Arsenii — Justin Lake
Cicero among the Stars: Constellations, Humanism, and Cultural Clusters of the Carolingian Age — John J. Contreni
Part III. FIGURATA
Little Children, Jewish Attire, and the Monks of Saint-John (Müstair) — Valerie L. Garver
Striking Coins — Jason Glenn
Lions not Lines: Figured Calcidian Diagrams and Diagrammatic Figures — Herbert L. Kessler
Part IV. PHAENOMENA
The Silent Sneeze of the Early Middle Ages — Richard Matthew Pollard
Rainbows and Theologies of Color in a Dark Age — Lynda Coon
Eclipse of the Carolingian Moon — Martha Rampton
Part V. NOSTALGIA
The Glimmering Gold of Memory and the Rust of Discontentment: A Reflection on Carolingian Civilization — Matthew Gabriele
Index I. General
Index II. Names and Places
Index III. Scriptural References
Index IV. Manuscripts



