Introduction. Making the Past in Late and Post-Carolingian Historiography
Maximilian Diesenberger
This article focuses on how different pasts were constructed in the late and post-Carolingian world. In order to create a past, authors active around year 900 chose strategies: they made use of specific text formats distance themselves from past; drew alternative sources new vocabulary. They changed scale their observation took liberties with narratives, as not firmly bound inherited narratives predecessors had been. an effect authorial posture within texts. Through these only attempted provide image reality â went beyond this. By breaking off present or emphasising certain aspects past while Â»forgettingÂ« others, making important contribution re-formation
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