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Thegan's strong dislike for Ebbo has been attributed by most modern historians to Ebbo's low birth and his contribution to the rebellion which deposed Louis briefly. More recently, Tremp has suggested that Ebbo was making an attempt to reform the chorepiscopate and that this was an additional reason
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Thegan wrote his history of Louis the Pious, translated as "The Deeds of Emperor Louis," in 836-7. The text is a narrative in unpolished Latin, as judged by the standards of the day, written with hortatory intent and based on personal knowledge and communication with friends. Prefaced by a brief
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The account is clearly partisan. The merits of Louis himself are exalted, though his councillors and Louis' poor judgement in taking their advice, are denigrated, while the actions of Louis' son
315:.4 (October 1990:1066). Walafrid also feels it necessary to excuse the poor scholarship in his prologue, claiming that Thegan has been occupied with other ecclesiastical matters. 387:
Innes, M. (2002). ""He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter" : the politics of humour in the Carolingian Renaissance". In G.Halsall (ed.).
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Noble, Thomas F.X., ed. "Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: the lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer". Penn State University Press.
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kings to construct a historical image for themselves. Indeed, Thegan's text is most frequently found as part of manuscripts containing texts such as the
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that he incurred Thegan's hatred. Whatever the reason behind it, it is clear from the text that Thegan's dislike for Ebbo is of a very personal nature.
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Mitchell, K.; Tremp, Ernst (1990). "Review of Studien zu den Gesta Hludowici Imperatoris des Trierer Chorbischofs Thegan by Ernst Tremp".
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Thegan refers to Ebbo in terms such as "vile peasant" and includes an extended tirade directed at Ebbo in ch. 44. Dutton, p. 171.
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Some poetry and a single letter from Thegan survive. This letter is written to one Hatto who was a count in the Rhine region of
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Tremp, E. (1990). "Thegan und Astronomus, die beiden Geschichtsschreiber Ludwigs des Frommen". In R. Collins (ed.).
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Very little is known of Thegan's life; he appears to have come from a noble Frankish family in the middle
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The text was not widely read during Thegan's lifetime but became far more popular during the reign of
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in the mid-830s. This concern to promote accord between Louis and his son is similarly evident in the
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Studien zu den Gesta Hludowici imperatoris des Trierer Chorbischofs Thegan
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Thegan. Das Leben Kaiser Ludwigs; Astronomus; herausgegeben und übersetzt
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Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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Opera Omnia by Migne Patristica Latina with analytical indexes
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has been translated into German by Ernst Tremp in the series
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Index

Gesta Hludowici imperatoris
Frankish
Roman Catholic
Holy Roman Emperor
Louis the Pious
Charlemagne
Rhine
Moselle
Lorsch
auxiliary bishop
Trier
praepositus
Bonn
Walafrid Strabo
Einhard
Vita Karoli
Kreuznach
Louis the German
Arnulf of Metz
Lothair
Ebbo of Reims
Charles the Bald
Carolingian
Royal Frankish Annals
Vita Hludovici
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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