Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies) (The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)
Language: English
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2006
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- Title
- Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies) (The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)
- Author
- McKitterick, Rosamond
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0268035008
- ISBN 13
- 9780268035006
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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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About the Author
Rosamond McKitterick is Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge University. She is the author and editor of over twenty books, including History and Memory in the Carolingian World.
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