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History, Scripture and Authority in the Carolingian Empire offers a
detailed analysis of the work of the ninth-century historian
Frechulf of Lisieux. It uses the creation of Frechulf's monumental
Histories to explore how the past was read and interpreted in the
Carolingian world. In c. 830, Frechulf, bishop of the northwestern
Frankish see of Lisieux, completed his Histories, a vast account of
the world from its creation through to the seventh century. Despite
the richness of the source, it has long been overlooked by modern
scholars. Two factors account for this neglect: Frechulf's
narrative stops over two centuries short of his time of writing,
and was largely a compilation of earlier, late antique histories
and chronicles. In examining Frechulf's historiographical
compendium, this book challenges a dominant paradigm within
medieval studies of understanding history-writing primarily as an
extension of politics and power. By focusing instead on the
transmission and reception of patristic knowledge, the compilation
of authoritative texts, and the relationship between the study of
history and scriptural exegesis, it reveals Frechulf's work to be
an unexpectedly rich artefact of Carolingian intellectual culture.
This book offers a ground-breaking critique of the concept of
'tradition' as it has been applied in the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander context. The authors offer a refreshing new style
of analysis. In writing that is rich in detail, strong in analysis
and informed by their research experience, they argue for a deeper
appreciation of the creativity inherent Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander social life, and the way that knowledge is
constructed and deployed in complex intercultural contexts in
contemporary Australia.Each chapter draws on detailed local
inter-cultural information which include Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander land and sea ownership and management, native title
processes, service delivery arrangements for health and outstation
management, and representations in art, song and broadcasting. In
each arena there are multiple engagements with broad global
processes. The advent of Native Title legislation has led
Indigenous communities across the country being required to
demonstrate their 'traditional' connections to country.For many,
their experiences of these processes are increasingly at odds with
the complex inter-cultural realities of their lives. They feel the
constraining effect of outmoded frameworks of 'tradition' in
legislation and policy where social and cultural innovation are
characterised as inauthentic. The book draws together key scholars
in Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander social research. The
authors provide productive ways of characterising Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander social life and develop a multi-disciplinary
theoretical critique to the concept of tradition.
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