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- catalog abstract "Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of this formative period of European history than the one found in standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had lost its way. This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century. Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain constitutional future.".
- catalog contributor b6538988.
- catalog coverage "France Politics and government To 987 Sources.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of this formative period of European history than the one found in standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had lost its way. This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century. Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain constitutional future.".
- catalog description "Francia and Adjoining Areas in the Ninth Century -- Carolingian Timeline -- Ch. 1. The Sleep of Kings -- Ch. 2. The Via Regia of Dreams -- Ch. 3. Charlemagne and His Dream Critics -- Ch. 4. Louis's Theater of Illusions -- Ch. 5. Civil Wars and Worse -- Ch. 6. The Property of Dreams -- Ch. 7. In This Modern Age -- Ch. 8. Charles the Fat's Constitutional Dreams -- Epilogue: Time to Wake.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-319) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 329 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Politics of dreaming in the Carolingian empire.".
- catalog identifier "080321653X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Politics of dreaming in the Carolingian empire.".
- catalog isPartOf "Regents studies in medieval culture".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Politics of dreaming in the Carolingian empire.".
- catalog spatial "France Politics and government To 987 Sources.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "944/.014 20".
- catalog subject "Carolingians.".
- catalog subject "Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 Influence.".
- catalog subject "DC73 .D88 1994".
- catalog subject "Dream interpretation Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "Latin poetry, Medieval and modern France History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) France History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Francia and Adjoining Areas in the Ninth Century -- Carolingian Timeline -- Ch. 1. The Sleep of Kings -- Ch. 2. The Via Regia of Dreams -- Ch. 3. Charlemagne and His Dream Critics -- Ch. 4. Louis's Theater of Illusions -- Ch. 5. Civil Wars and Worse -- Ch. 6. The Property of Dreams -- Ch. 7. In This Modern Age -- Ch. 8. Charles the Fat's Constitutional Dreams -- Epilogue: Time to Wake.".
- catalog title "The politics of dreaming in the Carolingian empire / Paul Edward Dutton.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".