ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT IN THE NINTH CENTURY: I, ENDS AND BEGINNINGS
Janet L. Nelson
This essay begins by celebrating the achievement of Wilhelm Levison, whoseEngland and Continent in Eighth Centuryhas both inspired provoked new generations explorers. The goes on to argue that historiography earlier Middle Ages has been haunted quests for end Roman Empire. Recent attempts at periodisation, Marxist other, have extended Rome's decline span ninth century, with Carolingian heyday truncated belittled, while Anglo-Saxon England split down middle representations Vikings' impact as a re-run fifth-century barbarian onslaught. Since 1989, abundant diverse historiographical takes, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary comparative, made it possible see century formative defining period European history, not least because multiple contacts between Continent. last part examines pontificate Leo III (795-816), show meeting, figuratively speaking, Rome. A wider world connections is brought into view scene set further explorations.
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