Walahfrid Strabo (808-849): Political Poetry in the Age of Reform and Crisis of the Carolingian Empire

瓦拉弗里德·斯特拉波（Walahfrid Strabo，808-849）：加洛林帝国改革与危机时代的政治诗歌

• 批准号: 265210706
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stefan Esders
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/265210706?language=en
• 关键词: Walahfrid; Strabo; 808; 849; Political

Walahfrid Strabo (808-849), monk and later abbot of Reichenau Abbey in the Lake of Constance, may not only be ranked among the most important scholars and poets of the Carolingian age, but also played an active part in discussions on contemporary politics. As is often the case with multi-talented intellectuals, Walahfrids multi-faceted personality and his wide-ranging literary interests have become separated by modern scholarship according to academic subjects. This happened quite undeservedly so, since his poetry is full of allusions and hints on the political debates and conflicts in the reign of Louis the Pious (814-840) and his sons, in which the poet became personally involved. The overarching aim of this project is to read Walahfrids major poems as statements on contemporary debates over issues of ecclesiastical policy, theology and the administration of justice. For this purpose, the topics referred to in the poems and his use of metaphors and allegorical interpretation will be interpretated as part of a political discourse that involved clergy and royal courts. A major question that will be raised is what precisely the contribution was that poetry could make within this setting, namely which topics could only be addressed by use of imagery and metaphorical language and to what extent poetry could generate new modes of perceiving political messages. In doing so, the projects seeks to highlight the intellectual and literary culture of the so-called Carolingian Renaissance. Moreover, it will also provide for a better understanding of religious and political communication in the period of late antiquity and the earlier middle ages.

瓦拉赫弗里德·斯特拉波（Walahfrid Strabo，808-849年）是一位修道士，后来成为康斯坦茨湖赖歇瑙修道院的院长。他不仅是君士坦丁堡时代最重要的学者和诗人之一，而且在当代政治讨论中发挥了积极作用。与多才多艺的知识分子一样，瓦拉弗里德的多面人格和他广泛的文学兴趣已经被现代学术根据学术科目分开。这种情况是不应该发生的，因为他的诗歌充满了关于虔诚者路易（814-840）及其儿子统治时期政治辩论和冲突的典故和暗示，诗人亲自参与其中。这个项目的总体目标是阅读Walahfrids的主要诗歌，作为对当代教会政策，神学和司法问题辩论的陈述。为此，诗歌中提到的主题以及他对隐喻和寓言解释的使用将被解释为涉及神职人员和皇家法院的政治话语的一部分。一个主要的问题是，诗歌在这种背景下究竟能做出什么贡献，即哪些主题只能通过使用意象和隐喻语言来解决，以及诗歌在多大程度上能产生感知政治信息的新模式。在这样做的过程中，这些项目旨在突出所谓的“柏林文艺复兴”的知识和文学文化。此外，它也将提供一个更好地了解宗教和政治沟通在古代晚期和中世纪早期。