Alcuin's Authorship of the Libri Carolini: Theodulfian Fictions and Elective Affinities

Abstract

in my 1977 Diplomatic Studies in Latin and Greek Documents from the Carolingian Age,1 i offered the Prolegomena to an edition of the Libri Carolini (LC), and here i hope that the reader will compare what i have said there with what i am writing in the present investigations concerning the Libri Carolini, alcuin’s works, and from theodulf’s writings, in order to see where my disagreements with ann Freeman’s and Paul meyvaert’s expositions of these texts lie.2 my own critical approach to the LC is not at all in any way determined by Freeman’s studies3 nor by meyvaert’s interpretations of the evidence,4 but by the