Paschasius Radbertus's Epitaphium Arsenii is a lively and polemical dialogue that takes us straight into the controversies within the court-connected and competitive elite of the 850s. The latter's membership, ecclesiastical as well as secular, measured each other against the yardstick of public service, and used failure to live up to this as a means of attack. On the one hand, the Epitaphium is a highly personal text, aimed at a restricted audience; on the other, it addresses the shared values of the Carolingian political leadership. This was not a world dominated by ‘the Church’, but one in which many ‘churches’ (monasteries) and their abbots actively participated in the political arena.

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对于上帝，国王和国家：阿森纳墓志铭中的个人和公众

Paschasius Radbertus的《 Etaphiumium Arsenii》是一场生动而辩论式的对话，使我们直接进入了与850年代法院相关且具有竞争力的精英人士的争论。后者的成员身份，无论是教会成员还是世俗成员，都是根据公共服务的标准相互衡量的，并以此作为攻击手段。一方面，墓志铭是一种高度个人化的文字，针对的受众是有限的。另一方面，它解决了加洛林政治领导人的共同价值观。这不是一个由“教会”统治的世界，而是一个许多“教堂”（修道院）及其住持者积极参与政治舞台的世界。