Epilogue
Marios Costambeys|Matthew Innes|Simon MacLean
Equipped as we are with perfect hindsight, modern historians instinctively inclined to look for beginnings and endings. The urge impose ordered narratives on the disorder of past is hard resist, thus story Carolingian empire often told (as indeed it in this book) one an identifiable beginning, middle end. Introducing book, justified our selection definition a specifically ‘Carolingian’ period. By way conclusion, can return place era bigger picture European history, remind ourselves tension all historical explanation between ideas abrupt change continuous development.
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