Cet article entreprend l’analyse de la composition des opuscules théologiques de Gottschalk d’Orbais qu’appelait de ses vœux leur éditeur Cyrille Lambot. Ces opuscules sont composés d’une juxtaposition tantôt planifiée, tantôt accidentelle de scedulae (brouillons préparatoires, florilèges de citations bibliques et patristiques, lettres...), parmi lesquelles on trouve de véritables manuels de débat. Ces scedulae offrent une image inédite de la dissémination des écrits polémiques pendant la controverse carolingienne sur la double prédestination (années 850) et permettent de réévaluer l’écho qu’elle a rencontré dans les rangs du simple clergé.
Doctrinal debate and literary genre in Carolingian times: the theological works of Gottschalk of Orbais
Doctrinal debate and literary genre in Carolingian times: the theological works of Gottschalk of Orbais
This article studies the composition of the theological works of Gottschalk of Orbais. The manuscript is composed of a juxtaposition of scedulae (drafts, biblical and patristic collections, letters...), which surely reflects the will of Gottschalk in some respects, but is also the result of the transmission of his documents after his death. These papers include in particular polemical handbooks for debating. These scedulae give an unusual picture of how polemical texts circulated during the Carolingian controversy on double predestination in the 850s; they make it possible to reappraise the impact of doctrinal debate among the lower clergy.
