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Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
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Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as
little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond
McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in
their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the
past. In these essays, McKitterick focuses on the Frankish realms
in the eighth and ninth centuries and examines different methods
and genres of historical writing in relation to the perceptions of
time and chronology. She claims that there is an extraordinary
concentration of new text production and older text reproduction in
this period that has to be accounted for, and whose influence is
still being investigated and established. Three themes are
addressed in Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages.
McKitterick begins by discussing the Chronicon of Eusebius-Jerome
as a way of examining the composition and reception of universal
history in the ninth and early tenth centuries. She demonstrates
that original manuscripts turn out in many cases to be compilations
of sequential historical texts with a chronology extending back to
the creation of the world or the origin of the Franks. In the
second chapter, she explores the significance of Rome in
Carolingian perceptions of the past and argues that its importance
loomed large and was communicated in a great range of texts and
material objects. In the third chapter, she looks at eighth- and
ninth-century perceptions of the local past in the Frankish realm
within the wider contexts of Christian and national history. She
concludes that in the very rich, complex, and sometimes,
contradictory early medieval perceptions of a past stretching back
to the creation of the world, the Franks in the Carolingian period
forged their own special place.
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