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... a single stand-alone sentence, a colophon, from an early ninth-century manuscript, Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique 8216-8218, in which the scribe, one Ellenhart, reports that he copied the book while on a military campaign and supplies the dates of his copying. This evidence leads the author...

... of the Brussels colophon quietly insist on Ellenhart s humility : It was Ellenhart who copied out in his distinctive script the rest of the manuscript, including the Vision of Barontus, a popular early medieval text, but a somewhat strange presence in Ellenhart s manuscript since it is a seventh-century text...

... of a Carolingian monk while accompanying a military campaign, stands out not only for its expansive length but also for its rich elaboration.9 He stresses the agency of the monk Ellenhart, which has a vivid presence in each moment of Dutton’s narrative, but from the very outset, Dutton is out for “larger...

... Ellenhart wouldn’t have gone. Sometimes you have to take the leap with me or the whole argument might fall apart. Whether one can reconstruct the campaign in the way that I did is also open to question. We know little about this particular military campaign. I can posit how long it took to reach...

... of the desert fathers? Could his choice say some- thing significant about the scribe, his monastery, and perhaps even the world of Carolingian monasticism? The manuscript’s scribe, Dutton shows us, was Ellenhart, a deacon and monk at the Benedictine monastery of St-­Emmeram in Regensburg. Bringing...