An authority among authorities: knowledge and use of Augustine in the wider Carolingian world.
What knowledge of Augustine might a Carolingian subject outside the ecclesiastical elite have possessed? If the all‐pervasive influence of Augustine is one of the hallmarks of the Carolingian era, how far into the Carolingian world did that influence (and conscious knowledge of it as 'Augustinian')...
| Published in: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 532 - 560 |
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