Queen Tetberga. Hincmar also wrote against Lothair’s appointment of a candidate to the
bishopric of Cambrai and generally upheld the rights of bishops in ecclesiastical
appointments. Although known mostly for his political activities, Hincmar also wrote a
treatise on the palanquin of Solomon (Song of Songs 3:9–10) which seems to comment
on a carmina figurata of these verses, making use of a good deal of numerical
symbolism.
E.Ann Matter
[See also: CHARLES II THE BALD; CORONATION/CONSECRATION OF
KINGS; GOTTSCHALK; SAINT-DENIS; REIMS]
Hincmar of Reims. Opera. PL 125–26.
——. De ordine palatii, ed. Maurice Prou. Paris: Vieweg, 1884.
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. Collectio de ecclesiis and Ad reclusos et simplices, ed. W.Grundlach. Zeitschrift für
Kirchengeschichte 10 (1899): 93–144, 258–309.
Carey, F.M. “The Scriptorium of Reims During the Archbishopric of Hincmar.” In Classical and
Medieval Studies in Honor of Edward Kennard Rand, ed. Leslie W.Jones. New York, 1938.
Devisse, Jean. Hincmar, archevêque de Reims 845–882. 3 vols. Geneva: Droz, 1976–79.
Duckett, Eleanor Shipley. Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1962.
Nelson, Janet L. “Kingship, Law, and Liturgy in the Political Thought of Hincmar of Reims.”
English Historical Review 92(1977):241–79.
Schrörs, Johann Heinrich. Hincmar, Erzbischof von Reims: Sein Leben und Seine Schriften.
Freiburg, 1884.
Taeger, Buckhard. Zahlensymbolik bei Hraban, bei Hincmar, und im Heliand: Studien zur
Zahlensymbolik im Frühmittelalter. Munich: Beck, 1970.
HISTOIRE ANCIENNE JUSQU’À CÉSAR
. Written by an anonymous clerk from Lille ca. 1208–13, the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à
César was the first universal history in Old French. It covers events from the creation of
the world to the invasion of Flanders by Julius Caesar. Based on the historical books of
the Old Testament, on Orosius’s Historia adversus paganos, and on the Old French
Romances of Antiquity, the text exists in two versions: at the end of the 14th century, the
second redaction suppresses the story of Alexander the Great and adds an extensive
account of the Trojan War drawn from Benoît de Sainte-Maure. The Histoire, found in
over sixty manuscripts, inspired such writers as Christine de Pizan; in many manuscripts,
it precedes the Fet des Romains. It has been attributed without cause to Wauchier de
Denain.
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
[See also: FET DES ROMAINS; HISTORIOGRAPHY; LEFÈVRE, RAOUL]
Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. “Moralization and History: Verse and Prose in the Histoire ancienne
jusqu’à César (B.N. fr. 20125).” Zeitschrift far romanische Philologie 97(1981): 41–46.
Meyer, Paul. “Les premières compilations françaises d’histoire ancienne.” Romania 14(1885):1–
81.
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