Ostfränkische Sammlungen von Dichtung im 9. Jahrhundert

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Imagining Rome: Reading a Ninth-Century Carolingian Manuscript in Its Monastic Context

“…Till Hennings identifies several dozens of manuscripts with ninth-century poetry collections from monasteries in the Eastern Frankish empire, which suggests that several more could be detected from other parts of the Carolingian world. 54 The anthologies of inscriptions and poetry had a particular function in the court context, providing models for writings in praise of the Carolingian rulers. This practice had roots in the Lombard world, in which scholars and poets used ancient inscriptions-which were still visible in large quantities in the physical environment of Italy-as models for poems in praise of the Lombard kings.…”