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Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire - c. 900-c.1050 (Hardcover)
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Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire - c. 900-c.1050 (Hardcover)
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Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a
new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the
'post-Carolingian' period in its own right and presenting it as a
time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and
legitimacy. In the late eighth century, the Frankish king
Charlemagne put together a new empire. Less than a century later,
that empire had collapsed. The story of Europe following the end of
the Carolingian empire has often been presented as a tragedy: a
time of turbulence and disintegration, out of which the new,
recognisably medieval kingdoms of Europe emerged. This collection
offers a different perspective. Taking a transnational approach,
the authors contemplate the new social and political order that
emerged in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe and examine how those
shaping this new order saw themselves in relation to the past. Each
chapter explores how the past was used creatively by actors in the
regions of the former Carolingian Empire to search for political,
legal and social legitimacy in a turbulent new political order.
Advancing the debates on the uses of the past in the early Middle
Ages and prompting reconsideration of the narratives that have
traditionally dominated modern writing on this period, Using and
Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire is ideal for
students and scholars of tenth- and eleventh-century European
history.
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