‘Sad stories of the death of kings’: Narrative Patterns and Structures of Authority in Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle
Stuart Airlie
This collection deliberately brings together work which is chronologically, geographically and generically diverse. Texts studied include traditional narrative historiography, alongside poetry, chronicles, charters, dispute settlements hagiography. The essays range from Italy Frankia to Scandinavia England, as they examine texts produced the seventh early twelfth century. In exploring nature function of in texts, modern scholars use study Middle Ages, contributors this interdisciplinary volume integrate social, political, intellectual literary history. Each essay a whole illustrate that form offers both new vantage points on Ages opportunities for collaborative study.
Studies in the early Middle Ages