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Saving Science:

Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
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Focusing on the Handbook of 809, explores how the liberal arts, and in particular astronomy, experienced a revival in the ninth-century court of Charlemagne. Documents the utility of the constellations for prelates who needed to fix the floating feast of Easter and reckon time.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Drogo and the Handbook of 809

Part One: Unveiling the Heavens over Carolingian Skies

Chapter One: Illuminating Science: Creating the Handbook of 809

Chapter Two: Drogo’s Copy of the Handbook of 809: A Simulacrum of Celestial Order

Part Two: Representing the Cosmos for Carolingian Hearts and Minds

Chapter Three: Revealing Astronomy: Itinerant Painters and Shifting Signs

Chapter Four: Restoring What Was Lost: Astronomy and Natural Astrology in the Carolingian Era

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Very useful indeed as a thorough, balanced, and nuanced study of a cultural product that deserves to be better known.”

—William J. Diebold, Speculum

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