Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages McKitterick Rosamond
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages McKitterick Rosamond Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond…
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Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages McKitterick Rosamond
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. 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. 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.
McKitterick begins by discussing the Chronicon of Eusebius-Jerome as a way of examining the composition
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