«Stilo… memoriaeque mandavi»: Two and a Half Conspiracies. Auctors, Actors, Confessions, Records, and Models

«Stilo… memoriaeque mandavi»: Two and a Half Conspiracies. Auctors, Actors, Confessions, Records, and Models Danuta Shanzer University of Vienna, Austria This is a section of Between Ostrogothic and Carolingian Italy(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-664-3) by Fabrizio Oppedisano Firenze University Press Firenze 2022 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-664-3.08

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Conspiracies frustrate contemporaries, historiographers, and historians. This article explores roles, focalization, and confession in three conspiracies related to Italy, from the 6th, 4th, and 9th centuries respectively. The protagonists include Boethius, Silvanus, and Theodulf of Orléans. The main contribution is a philological and historiographical re-evaluation of Theodulf’s role in the revolt of Bernard of Italy against Louis the Pious (817/18), arguing that Theodulf advised Louis about the punishment of the conspirators. Boethius first emerges as a historico-political exemplum (though his Cons.) in Modoin’s rescriptum (Theodulf, C. 73 [820/21]).

Early Middle Ages Late Antiquity Louis the Pious Theodulf of Orléans Boethius Receptions Boethius Consolation of Philosophy Ammianus Marcellinus Silvanus Revolt of Bernard of Italy (817) Confession Conspiracies

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