Description:
"My project is to edit the Latin creed commentaries and
explanations of the faith found in over two hundred Carolingian
manuscripts (mid-eighth to end-ninth century) . The project will 1}
make known and accessible a large number of entirely unedited Latin
texts; 2} supply new, critical editions of older, often inaccurate,
published commentaries on the creeds, employing manuscripts not
used in previous editions; and 3} bring together for the first time
a significant portion of the Carolingian literature pertaining to
the interpretation of the creeds.
In its larger context, this project is a contribution to the
study of the Carolingian Renaissance, or Carolingian Reform. Long
acknowledged as one of the greatest historical enterprises of
western civilization, its implementation and transforming effect on
the lives and institutions of the people across nascent Europe are
still little explained."