Carolingian History and the Historians’ Metanarrative
Dmitri Starostin
The essence of historian’s craft or his her ability to construct narratives where only bits information had reached him by way written oral tradition is one the main problems investigation in discipline history. Historians Carolingian age present a particularly difficult task for researchers because their work joined narrative both own attitudes and judgments attempts pro-Carolingian, universal thus non-partisan historical outlook. Looking past, historians balanced on verge between providing contemporary account recent events, being shaped favor ruling kings, patrons, need look deeper into past search forces that underlay success. picture we use today was constructed it could not have been produced relying documents. It “fabrication” negative sense term, but “construction” positive meaning. Thus, key episodes Charlemagne’s reign be understood without historians’ “authorial license”. Only construed meaningful sequence events reproduced memory. But at same time, once approach these are left with interpretations rather than facts. period history Frankish kingdom, Charlemagne, can seen as narrative, which cannot perceived looking context its origin authors’ “creative” influence representation past.
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