Produção Nacional
Corruption in Carolingian Courts from Theodulf of Orléans’ Contra Iudices (Gaul, Late 8th Century). Just a moral Problem?
2024; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS; Volume: 40; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/0104-87752024v40e24038
ISSN1982-4343
AutoresThiago Juarez Ribeiro da Silva,
ResumoABSTRACT From Contra Iudices, a poem composed by Theodulf of Orleães at the end of the 8th century, this text proposes to: i) map the practices considered corrupt denounced by Teodulfo, also taking into account the subjects involved, since we talk about corruptors and corrupted ones; ii) underline the vocabulary used to describe this corruption; and iii) bearing in mind issues of authorship, documentary genre and target audience, answer why Teodulfo wrote his poem at that time. It seems to me that only the association of Christian values with the action of public agents, as pointed out by part of the historiography about the performance of Carolingian rulers, is insufficient to describe the concern of the Bishop of Orléans with the correct application of justice. It is possible to imagine that the condemnation of corruption, due to the factors brought by the poem, also unfolds in other issues, such as economic and political ones.
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