Admonitio generalis
The Admonitio generalis (Latin: "general admonition") is a capitular issued in 789 by Charlemagne . It is one of the most famous capitularies of all.
Character and content
The Admonitio Generalis, written in Aachen, is a detailed dispatch and warning letter addressed to the bishops, the rest of the clergy, the secular dignitaries and the people of the empire. It relates exclusively to the Bible and church law and, in its form, forms a reform program for the entire Franconian Empire . The eminent scholar Alcuin contributed to its formulation. It leads the initiative for a comprehensive education reform further, the first preserved document to Abbot Baugulf of Fulda -looking, and later to the further spread Angilram Metz sent epistola de litteris colendis is of 784/85.
The Admonitio Generalis is divided into two main sections:
- Chapters 1 to 59 deal with issues of ecclesiastical order. By and large, they are repetitions of instructions given by Pope Hadrian I in 774, specifically canons and papal decretals from the collection of Dionysius Exiguus . The aim was to restore the old canon law , which was regarded as exemplary .
- In the second section, chapters 60 to 82, the actual reform program is initiated. Charlemagne intended the fundamental Christianization of the tribal society of the empire, which was often still pagan. He urged the spiritual and secular rulers to work together in harmony, and installed a large-scale program to maintain education within the framework of church institutions.
- The regulation on the use of the vernacular in pastoral care and sermons was possibly groundbreaking , which was confirmed at the Synod of Frankfurt in 794, when the vernacular was given the same status as Hebrew, Latin and Greek, but the liturgy and biblical text apparently remained Latin .
Text output
- Hubert Mordek (†), Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (†), Michael Glatthaar (ed.): The Admonitio generalis of Charlemagne (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Fontes iuris Germanici antiqui in usum scholarum separately in editi. Volume 16). Hahn, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-2201-3 .
literature
- Walter Berschin : biography and epoch style in the Latin Middle Ages. Volume 3: Carolingian biography 750–920 (= sources and studies on the Latin philology of the Middle Ages. Volume 10). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9102-1 , pp. 101-113, especially p. 101.
- Josef Fleckenstein : Admonitio generalis . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 156.
- Hubert Mordek : Admonitio generalis . In: Albrecht Cordes , Heiner Lück , Dieter Werkmüller , Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (eds.): Concise dictionary on German legal history . 2nd, completely revised and enlarged edition. Volume 1, Erich-Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-07912-4 , Sp. 76-78.
- François-Louis Ganshof : What were the capitularies? Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1961, DNB 451430697 .
- Reinhold Schneider (Ed.): Capitularies. selected and introduced by Reinhold Schneider. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1968, DNB 457136308 .
Web links
- Latin text of the Admonitio generalis , ed. Alfred Boretius , in: MGH Capitularia regum Francorum 1, 1883, pp. 52–62. (Edition out of date)