The royal consecration ordines of the Pontifical of Sens from a new perspective

Bobrycki, Shane

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“…against legitimist (Rémois) arguments of royal authority'. 120 From Reims, we possess a pair of vision texts which stress Remigius's role as rightful consecrator of the kings of the Franks. The first is the 'Vision of Raduin', perhaps composed by Hincmar in his final years.…”

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Flodoard, the will of St Remigius and the see of Reims in the tenth century

Roberts

2014

Early Medieval Europe

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The ‘longer’ will of St Remigius of Reims, as preserved in the mid‐tenth‐century Historia Remensis ecclesiae of Flodoard of Reims, is widely agreed to be a forgery. But despite the fact that it is known almost exclusively from Flodoard's work, historians have never suggested that this document was produced in his day. This article contends that the longer will was indeed an original component of the Historia. Read in this context, the will can throw new light on the Historia itself, the career of Flodoard and the tumultuous history of the church of Reims in the first half of the tenth century.

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Flodoard, the will of St Remigius and the see of Reims in the tenth century

Roberts

2014

Early Medieval Europe

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“…23 Rather than a comprehensive distillation of queenship that formally defined a 'transpersonal' office, the Ermentrude ordo was a bespoke liturgy moulded within specific circumstances. 24 Grasping the particular significance of fertility at Ermentrude's consecration first requires reviewing those circumstances: dynastic pressures in west Francia, partly the product of a misfiring succession strategy; the ideological capital of queenship by the 860s; and tensions and opportunities generated by the ongoing Lothar II-Theutberga controversy next door in Lotharingia. The article turns next to the forms in which texts associated with Ermentrude's consecration survive.…”

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Ermentrude's consecration (866): queen‐making rites and biblical templates for Carolingian fertility

Mistry

2019

Early Medieval Europe

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Ermentrude's consecration in 866 has long been interpreted as the quintessential example of queen‐making as fertility rite. More recent scholarship has illuminated how Carolingian queen‐making articulated richer definitions of queenship and reflected wider political roles of queens. This article re‐examines the significance of fertility at Ermentrude's consecration. Close analysis of the introductory address that survives alongside the liturgy for anointing and coronation shows that fertility was an unusually important theme at Ermentrude's consecration – but not simply the queen's fertility. By modelling royal fertility on biblical templates, the consecration communicated not only hopes of future children but also political messages about divine sanction of dynastic continuity and good kingship.

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“…8 Similarly Shane Bobrycki's 2009 study goes beyond textual analyses of the inauguration rites for the king and queen to situate them within their codicological context in a particular manuscript, a pontifical made for the archbishop of Sens; he demonstrates how their presence testifies to that archbishop's claims to possess the authority to bestow kingship in the post-Carolingian world of the late ninth century. 9 As Bobyricki's and Exarchos's research into individual pontificals reveals, such collections of rites were not always intended for use as service books. They might be instead serve as library copies for study and reflection as much as practical records to support the ministry, or somewhere in between on a spectrum of works articulating claims to spiritual authority.…”

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Liturgy and Episcopal Authority. The Evidence of the Noyon Sacramentary (London, British Library, Additional MS 82956, formerly Phillipps MS 3340)

Hamilton¹

2019

The Medieval Low Countries

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The liturgical evidence for bishops remains underexplored. What work there is tends to focus on those rites reserved to the bishop collected in pontificals and therefore ignores the potential of more mundane books in daily use. This case study of a sacramentary used by the bishop of Noyon in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries reveals, through a comparison with similar materials produced for contemporary communities within northern France, the ways in which the bishop's roles in the secular world were reflected in minor changes made to the liturgy in use in one of his churches. It thus casts fresh light on the less well-known see of Noyon, and at the same time demonstrates the importance of incorporating such mundane materials into modern studies of episcopacy in this period.Recent work on the early and central medieval episcopate has greatly improved our understanding of how bishops, and the clerical communities in which they participated, understood, constructed and reconstructed their own roles in this period. 1 It is striking, however, that almost all of this scholarship focuses either on the political and secular aspects of episcopal lordship, through the study of charters, vitae and other narrative writings, or upon the evidence of letters, sermons, church councils and church law for the development of episcopal office. What has been largely neglected from these studies are those texts produced to support the main business of episcopal communities, that of prayer. Similar criticisms have been made of research into monastic communities; as the musicologist Susan Boynton has observed, the 'privileging of property and politics' risks marginalising liturgical evidence. 21 The research for this paper was conducted with the support of funding for the 2016-19 project Humanities in the European Research Area: After Empire: Using and not using the past in the crisis of the Carolingian world, c. 900-c.1050 (HERA.15.076). I should like to thank Steven Vanderputten and especially Brigitte Meijns for her help as editor, and the reviewer for their constructive comments.

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The royal consecration ordines of the Pontifical of Sens from a new perspective

Cited by 7 publications

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Flodoard, the will of St Remigius and the see of Reims in the tenth century

Flodoard, the will of St Remigius and the see of Reims in the tenth century

Ermentrude's consecration (866): queen‐making rites and biblical templates for Carolingian fertility

Liturgy and Episcopal Authority. The Evidence of the Noyon Sacramentary (London, British Library, Additional MS 82956, formerly Phillipps MS 3340)

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