Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (d. 882) is a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular. For forty years he was an advisor to kings and religious controversialist; his works are a key source for the political, religious and social history of the later ninth century, covering topics from papal politics to the abduction of women and the role of parish priests.

For the first time since Jean Devisse’s biography of Hincmar in the 1970s, this book offers a three-dimensional examination of a figure whose actions and writings in different fields are often studied in isolation. It brings together the latest international research across the spectrum of his varied activities, as history-writer, estate administrator, hagiographer, canonist, pastorally engaged bishop, and politically minded royal advisor. The introduction also provides the first substantial English-language survey of Hincmar’s whole career.

Table des matières :

1. Rachel Stone – Introduction
2. Janet L. Nelson – The bearing of Hincmar’s life on his historical writing
3. Christine Kleinjung – To fight with words: the case of Hincmar of Laon in the Annals of St. Bertin
4. Elina Screen – An unfortunate necessity? Hincmar and Lothar I
5. Clémentine Bernard-Valette – ‘We are between the hammer and the anvil’: Hincmar in the crisis of 875
6. Margaret McCarthy – Hincmar’s influence during Louis the Stammerer’s reign
7. Simon Corcoran – Hincmar and his Roman legal sources
8. Philippe Depreux – ‘Hincmar et la loi’ revisited: on Hincmar’s use of capitularies
9. Marie-Céline Isaïa – The bishop and the law, according to Hincmar’s Life of Saint Remigius
10. Sylvie Joye – Family order and kingship according to Hincmar
11. Josiane Barbier – ‘The praetor does concern himself with trifles’: Hincmar, the polyptych of St-Remi of Rheims and the slaves of Courtisols
12. Charles West – Hincmar’s parish priests
13. Matthew Bryan Gillis – Heresy in the flesh: Gottschalk of Orbais and the predestination controversy in the archdiocese of Rheims
14. Mayke de Jong – Hincmar, priests and Pseudo-Isidore. The case of Trising in context
Bibliography of primary sources

Select bibliography of secondary literature
Index

Informations pratiques :
Rachel Stone and Charles West (éd.), Hincmar of Rheims. Life and work, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2015. 328 p., 216 x 138 mm. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9140-7. Prix : 75,00 £.

Source : Manchester University Press