Bulletin of Nizhnevartovsk State UniversityBulletin of Nizhnevartovsk State University2311-14022686-8784Nizhnevartovsk State University49489Research ArticleIRISH INTELLECTUAL IN FRENCH KINGDOM OF THE IX-TH CENTURY: SEDULIUS SCOTUS AND HIS TREATISE «ON CHRISTIAN RULERS»GladkovA. K.Assistant Professor, Senior Scholar-Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences150620172808405112020Copyright © 2017, Gladkov A.K.2017The article discusses the development of Carolingian political thought of the IX century, that’s why special attention is payed to the analysis of the original Latin treatise «On the Christian rulers» («De rectoribus christianis»), written by the famous Irish thinker, an intellectual and a poet Sedulius Scottus as a call for peace and unity. The work, in the spirit of so-called «King’s Mirrors» has several levels of meaning, each of which corresponds to particular author's purposes. The question arises of whom this work was addressed to and what is the main purpose of creating the literary monument. The researcher hypothesizes that the treatise «On the Christian rulers», written in the period of the sharp confrontation between Lothar I, Charles I the Bald and Louis the German II, is dedicated to Lothar. Moreover, for the first time in world historiography the exact date of its creation is pronounced - 853. Considering the treatise «On the Christian rulers» in the historical and political context of the Frankish reality of the IX century, in the light of complex configurations of church-state and potestarian relations, Dr. A.K. Gladkov proposes to consider the work by Sedulius Scottus first of all as a call for peace, as an intellectual work, full of ancient and early medieval images and rhetorical figures, imbued mostly by high pacifistic pathos.Sedulius Scotus«On christian rulers»«Carolingian Renaissance»Седулий Скот«О христианских правителях»«Каролингское Возрождение»[Бирн Ф. Дж. 2006. Короли и верховные правители Ирландии. Санкт-Петербург: Евразия.][Гладков А. К. Король-пантера, страж закона и миротворец: образы власти в каролингской политической мысли IX века // Петров А.В. (отв. ред.). Древняя Русь: во времени, в личностях, в идеях. Альманах. Вып. 5. К 80-летию И.Я. Фроянова. Санкт-Петербург: 2016, 489-499.][Михайлова Т. А. 2012. Ирландия от викингов до норманнов. Язык, культуры, история. Москва: Языки славянской культуры.][Шайтан М. 1925. Ирландские эмигранты в Средние века // Добиаш-Рождественская О.А., Хоментовская А.И., Федотов Г.П. Средневековый быт. Ленинград: Время, 179-205.][Brunhölzl F. 1975. Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters. Bd. I. München: C.H. Beck, 449-466.][Sedulius Scotus. 1857. Liber de rectoribus Christianis ad Carolum Magnum vel Ludovicum Pium // Patrologiae cursus completes, series latina / Migne J.-P. (ed.). T. 103. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 291-332.][Sedulius Scotus. 1988. Collectaneum miscellaneum / Simpson D. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols.][Sedulius Scotus. 1991. Carmina / Meyers J. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols.]