Orbis Romanus

• Verfasst von: Sarti, Laury [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Orbis Romanus
• Titelzusatz: Byzantium and the legacy of Rome in the Carolingian world
• Institutionen: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg [Grad-verleihende Institution]
• Institutionen: Oxford University Press [Verlag]
• Verf.angabe: Laury Sarti
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xii, 399 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 323-388
• Hochschulschrift: Habilitation, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2021
• ISBN: 978-0-19-774652-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Fränkisches Reich / (g)Byzantinisches Reich / (s)Politische Identität / (s)Kulturelle Identität / (s)Nachfolgestaaten / (g)Römisches Reich / (z)Geschichte 700-900
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sarti, Laury: Orbis Romanus. - 1st ed.. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024. - 1 online resource (417 pages)
• RVK-Notation: NM 5940
• K10plus-PPN: 1880131323

Abstract

"This monograph reassesses the role of the Franks in the early medieval world by studying the connectivity between the two worlds, the visions of Antiquity, the conceptions of empire, mutual perceptions and identities, the use and significance attributed to Greek and Latin, the role of the Church and religious controversies, and Roman culture. It argues that the Carolingian world still belonged to the multi-ethnic orbis Romanus. The ongoing Frankish participation was not based on intense connectivity, but on the significance attributed to Roman identities and heritage. The Frankish kingdoms had emerged from inside the Roman world, with a large Roman population and continuity on virtually every level of society, including governance, law, the Church, language, and culture. They smoothly transitioned from "Roman" to "Frankish" society by retaining some notable Roman elements as part of a gradually transforming world. Frankish Romanness, defined by the imperial past, the Byzantine present, and genuinely western Roman features belonging to the Carolingian kingdoms, had evolved over the centuries. Still, when Charlemagne rose to the status of emperor, he meant to resurrect the tradition of western emperorship. The idea that the Franks governed the same imperium as the emperor of the east was only abandoned at the time of his successors. Although the Franks never designated themselves as Romans, Romanness had remained a constitutive feature of their Frankish identity and world. The study also shows that the Byzantines conceived the Franks as a connatural people and acknowledged that they had their share in the Roman world"--