Rhetoric and Reckoning in the Ninth Century: The 'Vademecum' of Walahfrid Strabo

by Wesley M. Stevens, Walahfrid Strabo

Overview

A modest man of great accomplishments, Walahfrid was a fine poet, teacher, abbot, gardener, liturgist, and diplomat. His personal notebook reveals that he loved arithmetic and astronomy. For a decade, he tutored Carolus iunior, youngest son of Judith and Ludwig der Fromme, who became emperor Charles the Bald. On two occasions, Walahfrid found and transcribed formulae and explanations of time series, often correcting them. By identifying Walahfrid's sources and scripts, Professor Stevens is able to trace his life and scholarship, as they relate to Carolingian politics and schools in the first half of ninth-century Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782503565538
Publisher:	Brepols Publishers
Publication date:	11/15/2018
Series:	Studia Traditionis Theologiae Series , #24
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Latin