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The Carolingian Church and the Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Rosamond McKitterick*
Affiliation:
Newnham College, Cambridge University of Cambridge

Extract

In 849, Gottschalk of Orbais was summoned to the Synod of Quierzy. From his own studies of the patristic theologians he had formed views on predestination that had found little favour with the established Church of his day. No text of the proceedings at Quierzy survives but we do have reports from eye-witnesses in the contemporary Annals of St Bertin – interpolated by Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims to Gottschalk’s disadvantage – and by Florus the Deacon of Lyons. Hincmar is very scathing on how much Gottschalk’s learning had led him astray; he was too erudite for his own good. Hincmar tells us that at the synod, Gottschalk was accused of errant views, condemned, flogged, and compelled to burn the books containing his teachings (librosque suarum adsertionum). Florus the Deacon, however, provides crucial extra information. While Hincmar gives the impression that Gottschalk went to Quierzy more or less to be publicly punished, Florus’ account suggests that Gottschalk, at least as far as he, Gottschalk, was concerned, went to engage in dispute. He may even have been buoyed up with the hope of convincing his audience of bishops and abbots from the ecclesiastical province of Rheims, including Paschasius Radbertus of Corbie and Gottschalk’s own abbot from Orbais (in the diocese of Soissons), that he was justified in his views. Florus tells us that what Gottschalk had to burn were the sections from the Bible and patristic writings that vindicated his opinions and that he had brought with him to the synod. Gottschalk’s reference collection sounds very much like the dossiers assembled at other councils (not least Nicaea II in 787) compiled from authoritative writings to support views maintained in discussion.

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27 This appears to be a reference to the very lengthy panegyric on the rebuilding of the church at Tyre.

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107 Aleuin, Disputatio de rhetorica et de virtutibus sapientissimi regis Karli et Albini magistri. The Rhetoric of Aleuin and Charlemagne, ed. with Eng. tr. Howell, W.S. (Princeton, NJ, 1941), 1323 Google Scholar.

108 M. de Jong, ‘The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and “biblical historia for rulers”’, in Hen and Inncs, Uses of the Past, 191–226.

109 I discuss the role of Cassiodorus’ Imtitutiones in this respect as well in my Carolingians and the Written Word, 200–5.

110 Sigebert of Gembloux, De viris illustribus, ed. Wittc, R., atalogas Sigeberti Cemblacensis monachi de viris iUustribus, Lateinischc Sprachc und Literatur des Mittelalters 1 (Bern, 1974) -and also in PL 160, cols 54788 Google Scholar; Honorius Augustodunensis, De Iuminaribus ecclesiae (PL 172, cols 197–234), see V.I.J. Flint, The place and purpose of the works of Honorius Augustodunensis’, Revue Bénédictine, 87 (1977), 97–127.

111 Addendum to n.68: In the new edition by Hase, A, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch: Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar, Beitrage zum Buch- und Bibliothck-wesen, 42 (Wcisbadcn, 2002), 137, Jerome-Gennadius is listed at 151 Google Scholar.