Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future
- 1 Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy
- 2 Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints
- 3 The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis
- 4 The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism
- 5 The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages
- 6 The Franks as the New Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne
- 7 Political ideology in Carolingian historiography
- 8 The Annals of Metz and the Merovingian past
- 9 The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers
- 10 Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic Past
- 11 A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
- APPENDIX: The Memorial to Pacificus of Verona
- Index
11 - A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future
- 1 Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy
- 2 Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints
- 3 The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis
- 4 The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism
- 5 The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages
- 6 The Franks as the New Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne
- 7 Political ideology in Carolingian historiography
- 8 The Annals of Metz and the Merovingian past
- 9 The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers
- 10 Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic Past
- 11 A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
- APPENDIX: The Memorial to Pacificus of Verona
- Index
Summary
pacificus' life between the ninth and twelfth centuries
Pacificus, an archdeacon of Verona, lived probably between the end of the eighth and the first half of the ninth century, when the city of Verona was starting its career as one of the main centres of Carolingian patronage in northern Italy. He – together with the local clergy of the schola sacerdotum Veronensis ecclesiae – probably supported the revolt against Louis the Pious organized by Bernard, Pippin's son, in 817. As a political opponent of Louis the Pious and his ally Ratholdus, the bishop of Verona, Pacificus was probably exiled to the monastery of Nonantola (in the province of Modena) where he died. During his exile Pacificus did try at least once to regain his lost prestige within the schola sacerdotum Veronensis ecclesiae but apparently without success. His existence is proved by one autograph signature to a private document in 809 and perhaps a second to a similar document of 814, now disappeared.
Pacificus' story is therefore not very different from that of other priests, monks and bishops who tried unsuccessfully to voice their dissent from the Carolingian establishment.
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- The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages , pp. 250 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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